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I am sympathetic, but portability was more important in the past and gets less important each year. I used to write code strictly keeping the difference between
by lanstin 6y ago
I am sympathetic, but portability was more important in the past and gets less important each year. I used to write code strictly keeping the difference between numeric types and sequences of bytes in mind, hoping to one day run on an Alpha or a Tandem or something, but it has been a long time since I have written code that runs on non-(Intel AMD or le ARM)
- alexvoda 6y agox86_32, x86_64, arm, arm64, POWER , RISC-V and several others are alive and kicking. China is making their own ISA. And there is still plenty of space and time for new ISAs to be created. Portability is still plenty relevant.