C Is Not a Low-level Language: Your computer is not a fast PDP-11 (2018)

Re:C Is Not a Low-level Language: Your computer is not a fas... by kevin_thibedeau on Friday March 07, 2025 @09:10AM (#43290281)

There are vastly more computers out there than x86 and many of them are little more (or less) advanced than a PDP-11.

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Re:C Is Not a Low-level Language: Your computer is not a fas... by connicpu on Friday March 07, 2025 @09:13AM (#43290307)

By raw compute power though it's pretty much x86, ARM, and whatever proprietary internal machine code Nvidia and AMD use on their GPUs that make up the vast majority.

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Re:C Is Not a Low-level Language: Your computer is not a fas... by cmrdporcupine on Friday March 07, 2025 @09:18AM (#43290351)

Even the bulk of ARM microcontrollers in common embedded usages these days have prefetch, branch prediction, caches, etc.

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