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Re:FFmpeg and a thousand fixes by pjmlp on Saturday January 11, 2014 @04:17AM (#7042121)
Those 5% are written in Assembly anyway. C does not expose SIMD, non portable compiler specific extensions do.

For the remaining 95% of the code, since 1978 one could use Modula-2, Ada, Pascal dialects, SafeC and many other system programming languages.

Back in the early 80's, C compilers were as crap as any other system programming languages when generating code for home computers.

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