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They do not support C officially, but every CPU designer knows that 99%+ of the code that matters is written in C. Therefore they design chips targeting this tr
by coliveira 9y ago
They do not support C officially, but every CPU designer knows that 99%+ of the code that matters is written in C. Therefore they design chips targeting this translation from C. What the authors want is a better lower level interface that would allow for modern processor features without the legacy of the features available to the PDP11.
- umanwizard 9y ago> 99%+ of the code that matters is written in C I think a better way of stating this is "99% of the code that matters is written in C, or in a language designed with a similar target architecture as C in mind". Certainly a lot of code that matters is written in C++, Objective-C, and Java, but the same points hold true for all of those.