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jjgreen
on April 2, 2021
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Summary of C/C++ integer rules
It used to be "folk knowledge" that only Fortran and hand-crafted ASM were faster. Not sure if that's still (or ever was) true.
hajile
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I guess it was maybe true one time.
http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/story-of-mel.html
tammerk
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I agree but I didn't consider these while saying C is the fastest. These are not "general purpose", like you don't write your db, browser, http server or game engine with these.
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