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Re:Why Isn't Functional Programming the Norm? [video] by gpderetta on Thursday October 17, 2019 @12:22PM (#21283627)
Never written even a simple C compiler, but I, and most c++ programmers that care about performance I think, do have a decent idea what code g++ is going to generate.
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Re:Why Isn't Functional Programming the Norm? [video] by asjw on Friday October 18, 2019 @04:27AM (#21289587)
But g++ is probably better than you at producing fast code for whatever architecture you run it on.
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Re:Why Isn't Functional Programming the Norm? [video] by gpderetta on Friday October 18, 2019 @11:18AM (#21292097)
Of course it is, that's why I let it generate it.
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