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Comment by gf000

6 months ago

Then why use C? Take a look at actually perf-sensitive hot loops, and they are predominantly some inline assembly with a bunch of SIMD hacks, which can be 1000x times faster than C...

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otabdeveloper4  6 months ago

Unfortunately inline assembly isn't portable even to different revisions of one CPU architecture, much less different ones.

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