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Re:Pointers Are More Abstract Than You Might Expect in C by MaxBarraclough on Monday July 02, 2018 @05:39PM (#17445544)
You're right to emphasise good data-structures and algorithms (also concurrency, parallelism, etc), but compiler optimisation is nothing to sneeze at. '10%' is laughably off-base.

From a quick google: compiler optimisation can accelerate CPU-bound code to over 5x the unoptimised performance. https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=clang-gc...

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Re:Pointers Are More Abstract Than You Might Expect in C by jeremiep on Tuesday July 03, 2018 @02:45PM (#17452706)
They seem to be benchmarking very specific things and not actual applications. These numbers do not hold in the real world.
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