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> now obsolete computer architecture model

I think this is kind-of dismissive. You seem to assume that everyone is programming modern x86 machines. What about embedded? My little PIC32/STM32/ATMEGA do not have caches or predictors, and has a flat memory space.

Thank god there is the C standard, that even today after more than 30 years, give compilers a clear set of rules allowing them to emit code for those thousands of architectures used today in the dozens of embedded devices we have in our houses/offices/industries today, and not only that, it allows to squeeze the maximum performance out of these microcontrollers, for a language that is not plain assembler.

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Ah, I didn’t mean to come off as dismissive. My bad. When I wrote my comment I only had consumer hardware on my mind. However, I realize that C isn’t simply limited to this new modern hardware either.