[CoffeeCollector]

What is a “tight C loop”?

[klez]

It's a loop with few instruction that iterates many times, written in C.

[CoffeeCollector]

Can’t we have a tight loop in any language? What’s special about C here?

[josephcsible]

Tight loops in higher-level languages generally always have yield points/opportunities to break provided by the runtime, even if the loop itself doesn't appear to have any.

[CoffeeCollector]

Seems to me this says more about the programmer than the language.

[klez]

The fact that I was responding to someone asking what a tight *C* loop is, nothing more.