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Re:C Isn't a Programming Language Anymore by mmastrac on Monday November 07, 2022 @04:12PM (#33512531)
> The resulting C code was so large

> you'd need to branch past ~33MB of code in a single function to hit it.

That's... an impressive amount of C code.

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Re:C Isn't a Programming Language Anymore by ranger_danger on Monday November 07, 2022 @07:31PM (#33514534)
Not really... many modern desktop applications are >100MB when built statically.
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Re:C Isn't a Programming Language Anymore by rowanG077 on Monday November 07, 2022 @07:45PM (#33514621)
That's binary size. Not code size.
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Re:C Isn't a Programming Language Anymore by atheken on Thursday November 17, 2022 @04:37PM (#33646143)
They said 33MB of code for a function. That is an enormous swath of code.
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