Implementation vs performance. And hand-coded assembly would likely be faster still. So what? u/josephg's point is the that implementing equally performant cod

Implementation vs performance. And hand-coded assembly would likely be faster still. So what? u/josephg's point is the that implementing equally performant code in 'C' was cost prohibitive for them. This is applying the principle behind "economics of compiler optimizations" writ large. Not a religious battle.