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I have to say, I have never encountered a program where compiling without optimizations made no difference. If you have seen that, then I would agree that C was
by E6300 10y ago
I have to say, I have never encountered a program where compiling without optimizations made no difference. If you have seen that, then I would agree that C was a very, very poor choice for that particular domain.
- pjmlp 10y agoBusiness applications, as it was common in the 90's. Witting them in C or VB made no difference for the guys sitting at the desk.
- ArkyBeagle 10y agoThis ranged from networking equipment to phone switches to equipment control. Most of it was bare metal. I've never written a business application in my life.
- ArkyBeagle 10y agoIt made no measurable difference. The acceptance criteria for the system were not materially affected. Since the optimization did not improve the performance by that, it was generally set one way ( mostly off ) and let that way. Teams I'm on have written some tight - but readable -code, too. Well-architected, low-latency, low-jitter.