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I always wondered why hand-optimized Assembly wasn't in the list of competing languages. That would be good as a baseline. Otherwise people might get the impre

by ginko 13y ago

I always wondered why hand-optimized Assembly wasn't in the list of competing languages. That would be good as a baseline. Otherwise people might get the impression that C is the "speed of light" as far as program speed is concerned.

frik 13y ago
Yes optimized ASM would be a great baseline. Fortran is already faster in several benchmarks than C.