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Re:On the history and justification of the C programming lan... by hga on Thursday August 18, 2016 @01:49PM (#12314738)
Higher level ones who's compilers can better reason about the code? See for example more generally Fran Allen's comments in Coders At Work for how desolate a optimization wasteland is C.
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Re:On the history and justification of the C programming lan... by AnimalMuppet on Thursday August 18, 2016 @02:43PM (#12315244)
I think you're looking at this backwards from clifanatic's point. The more a higher-level compiler can reason about the code, the more optimizations it can perform, the less the compiler output resembles the source code input I gave it.
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