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Re:Some were meant for C [pdf] by bandrami on Wednesday June 21, 2023 @04:58PM (#36424370)
It maps well to hardware from the 1970s and 1980s. It has very little to do with modern hardware, and for that matter modern hardware does some somersaults to present an interface that C "expects".
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Re:Some were meant for C [pdf] by AlexAndScripts on Wednesday June 21, 2023 @05:20PM (#36424736)
What are the specific differences?
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Re:Some were meant for C [pdf] by throwaway17_17 on Wednesday June 21, 2023 @06:32PM (#36425604)
The easiest read on this topic is Chris Chisnall’s ‘C is not a Low Level Language’ article [1]. It is a good read in general and not all that long. It addresses vectors, out-of-order execution, pipelining, and plenty of other topics along the way.

1 - https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3212477.3212479

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Re:Some were meant for C [pdf] by quelsolaar on Wednesday June 21, 2023 @06:34PM (#36425623)
Modern hardware is designed to map to C rather than the other way around. Turns out people want to buy hardware that can run existing software.
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