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Re:Some obscure C features by pjmlp on Friday January 26, 2018 @04:26AM (#16237923)
None of them are, not even Assembly, unless the CPU executes the opcodes directly in hardware without micro-code help.

The C machine model says nothing about vector instructions, instruction re-ordering, NUMA, GPGPU, IO ports, Harvard architecture, multi-core.

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Re:Some obscure C features by comex on Friday January 26, 2018 @08:57PM (#16244399)
As of C11, the C machine model does (finally) include threads and memory ordering, so at least you can say it says something about multi-core…
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