From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2018 20:25:00 -0700 From: Ori Bernstein To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Message-Id: <20180904202500.d4e629511996125d643d7635@eigenstate.org> In-Reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] Is Plan 9 C "Less Dangerous?" Topicbox-Message-UUID: e0f0851c-ead9-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Wed, 5 Sep 2018 09:30:22 +1000, Tyga 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