This is why, for instance, FORTRAN can easily outperform C for certain classes of program. Not quite. To quote the master: <pengvado> gcc fails to optimiz

This is why, for instance, FORTRAN can easily outperform C for certain classes of program. Not quite. To quote the master: <pengvado> gcc fails to optimize it because gcc has always sucked at arrays <pengvado> that's *the* benefit of fortran The benefit of FORTRAN is due to array and aliasing issues in C, not really whole-program optimization.