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Re:Algorithms for Modern Hardware by userbinator on Friday March 15, 2024 @11:21PM (#39723086)
C++ STL is generic and cross-platform, but I suspect they are doing specific optimisations (x86 Asm), and it's very easy to beat a compiler that way.
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Re:Algorithms for Modern Hardware by adrianN on Saturday March 16, 2024 @04:44AM (#39724280)
It’s not that easy to beat compilers, they know how to generate processor specific instructions too.
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