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Same here. I was impressed with its speed, but then I found that the reason ATS is so fast was that you basically just write C code in it to get it be fast. It

Same here. I was impressed with its speed, but then I found that the reason ATS is so fast was that you basically just write C code in it to get it be fast. It's pointless to benchmark as a language of its own.

vmchale 8y ago
It has a backend via C and thus GCC, but it enables some things that plain C doesn't due to making certain things easier, plus the ABI for functional programming stuff matches up very cleanly with the hyper-optimized stuff.