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by account42 1764 days ago
> It's the exact same sunk cost fallacy that a previous games industry generation said C/C++ would never beat hand-tuned Assembly and it wasn't worth trying.

C/C++ hasn't beat the performance of hand-tuned assembly - it has simply gotten close enough that the cost of hand-tuned assembly is not worth it in most cases.