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Re:OpenSSL Security Advisory by ori_b on Thursday September 22, 2016 @05:20PM (#12560460)
> Until about 10 years ago, hand crafted Assembler was still faster than C, and the speed improvements were actually needed.

It still is, especially when it comes to vectorization.

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Re:OpenSSL Security Advisory by nly on Thursday September 22, 2016 @07:05PM (#12561073)
And in other areas, but that's largely because C isn't expressive enough, not because we lack the engineering know-how to compile fast vectorisation code.
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Re:OpenSSL Security Advisory by ori_b on Thursday September 22, 2016 @11:41PM (#12562167)
I am not aware of a general purpose language that is expressive enough to auto vectorize generic code without basically writing in vector intrinsics.
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