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by dist1ll 1312 days ago
> C is fast because it's close to how CPU and memory actually work.

Out-of-order execution, cache hierarchies, branch prediction, virtual memory, pipelining, vector instructions, ILP, NUMA are all pretty transparent to the C spec.

Trying to accommodat hardware quirks with C feels like blackbox engineering. It's certainly better than with managed languages but still....
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kosherhurricane 1312 days ago
C is an abstraction, and most (all?) cpu architectures pretends to be c machines.

I don't know of any other way of manipulating the cpu as closely as C and assembly. Do you?

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