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From: Ori Bernstein <ori@eigenstate.org>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Is Plan 9 C "Less Dangerous?"
Date: Tue,  4 Sep 2018 20:25:00 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180904202500.d4e629511996125d643d7635@eigenstate.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALj3Nd1ax8rsBcVM3jveMx57+f6i_nv=U4VapjG06yKsVN=iZQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, 5 Sep 2018 09:30:22 +1000, Tyga <cyberfonic@gmail.com> wrote:

> Ha HA !  Good one !

> CPUs, such as Intel/AMD x64
> are vastly more complex so "optimising" C compilers are trying to make
> something simple take advantage of something far more complex.

Ironically, because of the complexity in the CPUs, many of the optimizations
make less of a difference now -- they're essentially optimizing just in time
compilers under the hood, so even terrible code will run acceptably quickly.

--
    Ori Bernstein



  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-09-05  3:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-09-02 16:31 Chris McGee
2018-09-02 16:52 ` hiro
2018-09-03  4:07   ` Lucio De Re
2018-09-03 12:40     ` Chris McGee
2018-09-03 17:58       ` Ethan Gardener
2018-09-04 10:51         ` Lucio De Re
2018-09-04 11:33           ` Ethan Gardener
2018-09-04 11:41             ` Chris McGee
2018-09-02 18:16 ` Lucio De Re
2018-09-02 19:18   ` Steve Simon
2018-09-02 19:21 ` Iruatã Souza
2018-09-03  1:03   ` Charles Forsyth
2018-09-03  2:03 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2018-09-04 23:17 ` Charles Forsyth
2018-09-04 23:30   ` Tyga
2018-09-05  2:29     ` Chris McGee
2018-09-05 11:23       ` Dave MacFarlane
2018-09-05 11:42         ` Chris McGee
2018-09-05 13:35           ` Ethan Gardener
2018-09-05 15:38           ` Iruatã Souza
2018-09-05 23:59             ` Chris McGee
2018-09-06  0:32           ` Bakul Shah
2018-09-06  3:40             ` Lucio De Re
2018-09-06 11:41               ` Chris McGee
2018-09-06 13:37             ` Ethan Gardener
2018-09-06 17:48           ` Richard Miller
2018-09-06 19:08             ` Skip Tavakkolian
2018-09-06 21:21             ` Chris McGee
2018-09-07  8:32               ` Richard Miller
2018-09-05  3:25     ` Ori Bernstein [this message]
2018-09-05  8:19       ` Ethan Gardener

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