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The standard library benefits a great deal from ASM optimized implementations of functions. New instructions get added that can speed things up significantly.
by throwaway2048 7y ago
The standard library benefits a great deal from ASM optimized implementations of functions. New instructions get added that can speed things up significantly.
the compiler will almost never automatically generate this code.
- saagarjha 7y agoThis is all true, but I’m not sure the authors of these libraries are that interested in performance.