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by beardyw 578 days ago
This is about the optimising of logic, not languages. At the bottom there are the same instructions which know nothing of the language that conjured them up. Hats off to whoever did the work on this, but let's not get confused about where the magic happens.
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True but let's also not forget the unpredictability of stupidity in human developers which probably cause the majority of performance loss in any language.