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"processors wishing to keep their execution units busy running C code" What? This is non sense, the processor is not running C code! The processor can only run
by qsdf38100 8y ago
"processors wishing to keep their execution units busy running C code"
What? This is non sense, the processor is not running C code!
The processor can only run machine code, regardless of the language used to write the source code.
- monocasa 8y agoEh, the past thirty years has had CPUs designed to run C. That's the whole point of RISC: the idea of 'let's just pare down the CPU to what actually gets compiled, and now we have less gates in the critical path and we can run our chips faster'.
- qsdf38100 8y agohmmm, I think that CPUs instruction sets inherit mainly from the 8086, and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_8086 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_8086 mentions few languages that had influence on the 8086 design, but don't mention C at all.