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Re:KolibriOS – operating system written entirely in assembly... by setpatchaddress on Wednesday April 15, 2020 @12:53PM (#22880018)
I've no personal experience, but people historically point to pointer aliasing as the primary thing that speeds up Fortran code vs C.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pointer_aliasing

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Re:KolibriOS – operating system written entirely in assembly... by agumonkey on Wednesday April 15, 2020 @01:20PM (#22880412)
No personal experience either but discussing with people invested in high perf C, they said that `restrict` was enough to avoid aliasing issues.
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