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Comment by davedx

3 years ago

> Writing simple C code cannot achieve a comparable effect.

Can you provide a citation or source on this please?

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timbit42  3 years ago

I can't provide a citation or source either but I have seen such claims in a variety of places over the past 20 years. Certain design choices in C have caused the compiler to not be able to optimize as much as compilers for languages like FORTRAN or SISAL can. Of course, the ability to optimize SISAL was critical since it ran on the Cray supercomputers.