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The author's use case is gaming, actually retro games. While that does not benefit so significantly from faster computers, other industries would significantly
by yitchelle 6y ago
The author's use case is gaming, actually retro games. While that does not benefit so significantly from faster computers, other industries would significantly benefit from computers running as fast as possible.
Simple use case of doing a compile to generate a binary. Imagine if that process was only a few milliseconds, C language could be reclassified as an interpreted language. :-)
- badsectoracula 6y agoThat is largely a C issue, Delphi 2 for example can compile a simple text editor application in about a second on a Pentium at ~166Mhz :-P. Though for modern hardware there is Tiny C Compiler [0] which actually can be used as a "C scripting language" - AFAIK you can even embed it in applications for such use. Also TCCBOOT [1] was made in 2004 with TCC that compiles and boots Linux on a Pentium 4 in 15 seconds, so there is that. [0] https://bellard.org/tcc/ https://bellard.org/tcc/ [1] https://bellard.org/tcc/tccboot.html https://bellard.org/tcc/tccboot.html
- a9h74j 6y agoThis is a use-case for D, with a compiler flag to compile-and-run.