Re:C and C++ Prioritize Performance over Correctness
by marcosdumay on Friday August 18, 2023 @05:27PM
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Oh, by 73. Impressive. I didn't know that.
Still, that was a much more powerful machine than the ones people wrote C for. And when the cheap segment of those "fridge computers" became powerful enough to run whatever you wanted to put on it, people started using small workstations. And when those workstations became powerful enough, we got PCs.
It's only when the PCs got powerful enough that we could start to ignore the compiler demands and go with whatever language fit us better. (The later reductions all were based on cross-compiling, so they don't matter here.)
Still, that was a much more powerful machine than the ones people wrote C for. And when the cheap segment of those "fridge computers" became powerful enough to run whatever you wanted to put on it, people started using small workstations. And when those workstations became powerful enough, we got PCs.
It's only when the PCs got powerful enough that we could start to ignore the compiler demands and go with whatever language fit us better. (The later reductions all were based on cross-compiling, so they don't matter here.)