plpot

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   by plpot 8y ago

   But this will never be true in any low level language. You can spend a lot of time optimizing any single line of code manually, but software will always be faster than you. And will optimize any code you write beyond recognition.
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   by plpot 8y ago

   What you see there is the insane amount of complexity to create a high level feature of C: functions, plus compiler optimizations. What I don't understand about this argument is that you are calling C a high-level language because of
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   by plpot 8y ago

   I find this article insightful, but missing the points it tries to deliver. What the article is very good at delivering is that current CPU's ISAs exports a model that doesn't exist in reality. Yes, we might call it PDP-11, althou