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Re:C Is Not a Low-Level Language by nickpsecurity on Tuesday May 01, 2018 @04:26PM (#16971184)
"the same kind of pattern matching used by (e.g.) LLVM to find optimizable sequence of statements also could be used by any assembler"

Transmeta's x86 CPU's were even doing translations and optimizations dynamically between x86 and their internal representations.

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Re:C Is Not a Low-Level Language by still_grokking on Wednesday May 02, 2018 @02:29AM (#16974596)
> Transmeta's x86 CPU's were even doing translations and optimizations dynamically between x86 and their internal representations.

I think every modern x86 CPU is doing exactly that.

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