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Re:C Is Not a Low-Level Language by Avshalom on Tuesday May 01, 2018 @12:07PM (#16968299)
... any more.

It's not a category that can't exist, it just doesn't have any members right now.

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Re:C Is Not a Low-Level Language by mattnewport on Tuesday May 01, 2018 @12:43PM (#16968711)
It actually can't exist at all for current modern CPUs (x64/ARM/PowerPC) since they don't expose a programming interface for many of the things discussed in the article (speculative / out of order execution, register renaming, full cache control).
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Re:C Is Not a Low-Level Language by Avshalom on Tuesday May 01, 2018 @12:50PM (#16968787)
Yeah but it can for all sorts of microcontroller-y chips; embedded CPUs; DSPs; theoretical future CPUs that aren't trying to both act like a PDP11 and go faster every year...
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