Re:Compiler Construction: The Art of Niklaus Wirth (2000) [pdf]
by Narishma on Sunday March 18, 2018 @07:45AM
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I doubt vectorization (automatic or not) was relevant during Turbo Pascal's era.
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Re:Compiler Construction: The Art of Niklaus Wirth (2000) [pdf]
by e12e on Sunday March 18, 2018 @10:27AM
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True, but it's relevant today (since around 1996 with the mmx instruction set). And if some people are arguing today that you can have single pass, fast and simple, and get ~max performance on modern architecture.
I'm not saying you can't, I'm just saying that "as fast machine code as early 90s era c compilers" might not translate to as fast as today's c++ compilers machine code.