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Re:Summary of C/C++ integer rules by jjgreen on Friday April 02, 2021 @10:02AM (#26671480)
It used to be "folk knowledge" that only Fortran and hand-crafted ASM were faster. Not sure if that's still (or ever was) true.
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Re:Summary of C/C++ integer rules by hajile on Friday April 02, 2021 @12:03PM (#26672628)
I guess it was maybe true one time.

http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/story-of-mel.html

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Re:Summary of C/C++ integer rules by tammerk on Friday April 02, 2021 @07:28PM (#26676988)
I agree but I didn't consider these while saying C is the fastest. These are not "general purpose", like you don't write your db, browser, http server or game engine with these.
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