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Most of the obscure architectures people talk about are rather slow—after all, if performance were desired, then there would be a modern compiler available for
by pcwalton 4y ago
Most of the obscure architectures people talk about are rather slow—after all, if performance were desired, then there would be a modern compiler available for them—and so code running on them isn't performance critical.
- SAI_Peregrinus 4y agoThat conclusion does not follow. Often the slower architectures need the higher performance code where modern computers can afford to waste some. 8051s are ridiculously common, because they're stupidly cheap, but they're so under-powered that software performance is absolutely critical.