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by kaba0 1653 days ago
Which without side effects can be very heavily optimized (probably even better) than imperative code? Hell, the pipelining inside GPUs, and CPUs are perhaps closer to lambda calculus than Turing machines.

It’s not like the machine code will look much closer to your C code either. That’s also a spell of “compiler writers and hardware vendors trying to uphold the view that C programmers are so close to hardware and that memory access is flat”.