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Re:How fast can you allocate a large block of memory in C++? by burfog on Thursday January 16, 2020 @10:26AM (#22065354)
It's weird feeling surrounded by web programmers who think Python and Javascript are the lowest you'd ever want to go.

C++ is annoyingly high-level if you are trying to write code to go in a flash chip. The code starts running at a specific address at soon as the CPU starts. There is no OS unless your code implements one. There is no C++ library unless you port one.

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Re:How fast can you allocate a large block of memory in C++? by inetknght on Thursday January 16, 2020 @12:14PM (#22066550)
That's a fair point and it's a project I'd like to tackle someday in spare or paid time.

I don't think C++ is annoyingly high-level in that case: just annoyingly lacking in the ecosystem to support it.

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