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Re:Optimizations on Linear Search (2016) by Jtsummers on Saturday October 03, 2020 @06:41PM (#24675210)
The author was running on a 2013 laptop, which had smaller cache and slower RAM than what you're probably using.

Benchmark comparisons are useless without running on equivalent hardware.

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Re:Optimizations on Linear Search (2016) by richieartoul on Saturday October 03, 2020 @06:46PM (#24675238)
He was probably scanning elements that were larger than int32s, even on a 2013 this code would run at Gib/s.

The point of my benchmark was that C is nowhere near 50-100x faster than Go and that the user I'm replying to shouldn't make unsubstantiated claims like that.

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Re:Optimizations on Linear Search (2016) by formerly_proven on Sunday October 04, 2020 @07:59AM (#24678332)
My claim that the trivial C code is 100x faster than the number from the article is a) well substantiated b) all there is c) perfectly clear.
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