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Re:iAPX432: Gordon Moore, Risk and Intel’s Super-CISC Failure by igouy on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @12:39PM (#35456889)
> Compared to C++, Ada is a tiny lean fast sportscar of a language.

We can see C++ program measurements faster than Ada program measurements in those archived "programming language benchmarks game" charts.

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Re:iAPX432: Gordon Moore, Risk and Intel’s Super-CISC Failure by lproven on Thursday April 06, 2023 @04:20AM (#35465716)
What I was getting at was the size of the language, not its compiled speed.

Does any single human understand all of C++ and use it all? Is it even possible any more? If they did, could anyone else read the code?

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