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> You might say "optimizers will do a better job", and you're right That's probably why nothing good has been created to fill that space yet (that I know of).
by seanw444 2y ago
> You might say "optimizers will do a better job", and you're right
That's probably why nothing good has been created to fill that space yet (that I know of). Any serious project is just going to opt for compiler optimizations.
- kibwen 2y agoThe problem is that there are a handful of domains where optimizations need to be actively fought against, like low-level cryptography primitives. You can't write these in C reliably, so you need to drop into assembly to deliberately inhibit the optimizer, but that doesn't mean that assembly the ideal choice, only that it's the only choice.