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Re:It’s Faster Because It’s C by statictype on Tuesday July 13, 2010 @09:26PM (#1513293)
But higher-level languages can write the machine code that "exploits caching in general and optimizes for locality in particular" for you

Are there any in existence that do this particularly well (ie, at least as good or better than a reasonably experienced C programmer might)?

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Re:It’s Faster Because It’s C by jrockway on Wednesday July 14, 2010 @11:58AM (#1514972)
Sure, lots. They use the same C libraries that the reasonable experienced C programmer would.

(Also, take a look at some of the ghc on llvm benchmarks, it's very competitive with C, and doesn't require you to jump through any hoops. I'd link you, but Google is blocked at work due to incompetent firewall rules. Sigh.)

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