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That last bit is really interesting. Do newer languages make use of those features? Sorry I’m fairly ignorant of this level of the stack.
by danielvaughn 3y ago
That last bit is really interesting. Do newer languages make use of those features? Sorry I’m fairly ignorant of this level of the stack.
- trealira 3y agoNewer languages don't make use of any of those features, to my knowledge. They're only available in assembly, and only on modern processors. Because C was made on and designed for hardware that was crappy even in the 1970s, which didn't have a cache or do out of order execution, C doesn't fully reflect the capabilities of modern processors. That's what they're implying with the last sentence, I'm pretty sure.