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Re:I wasted weeks hand optimizing assembly because I benchma... by anonymousDan on Thursday July 24, 2025 @03:33PM (#44675020)
Yeah it always felt like they were jumping through hoops to basically write C code through Java. I expect some of this might shift to Rust..
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Re:I wasted weeks hand optimizing assembly because I benchma... by kccqzy on Thursday July 24, 2025 @05:21PM (#44676344)
Well you do get guaranteed memory safety.
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Re:I wasted weeks hand optimizing assembly because I benchma... by saati on Thursday July 24, 2025 @05:58PM (#44676804)
If they were mucking around with asm and custom jit those memory safety guarantees are gone.
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