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Re:I Do Not Know C: Short quiz on undefined behavior (2015) by E6300 on Monday February 13, 2017 @11:11PM (#13641071)
I have to say, I have never encountered a program where compiling without optimizations made no difference. If you have seen that, then I would agree that C was a very, very poor choice for that particular domain.
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Re:I Do Not Know C: Short quiz on undefined behavior (2015) by ArkyBeagle on Wednesday February 15, 2017 @02:23AM (#13650334)
It made no measurable difference. The acceptance criteria for the system were not materially affected. Since the optimization did not improve the performance by that, it was generally set one way ( mostly off ) and let that way.

Teams I'm on have written some tight - but readable -code, too. Well-architected, low-latency, low-jitter.

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Re:I Do Not Know C: Short quiz on undefined behavior (2015) by pjmlp on Tuesday February 14, 2017 @02:16AM (#13641846)
Business applications, as it was common in the 90's.

Witting them in C or VB made no difference for the guys sitting at the desk.

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Re:I Do Not Know C: Short quiz on undefined behavior (2015) by ArkyBeagle on Wednesday February 15, 2017 @02:26AM (#13650350)
This ranged from networking equipment to phone switches to equipment control. Most of it was bare metal.

I've never written a business application in my life.

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