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plpot

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About plpot

I like computers, don't like computer people.

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    Comment #16970191

    But this will never be true in any low level language. You can spend a lot of time optimizing any single line of code manually, but software will always be faster than you. And wil…

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    Comment #16970091

    What you see there is the insane amount of complexity to create a high level feature of C: functions, plus compiler optimizations. What I don't understand about this argument is th…

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    Comment #16969895

    I find this article insightful, but missing the points it tries to deliver. What the article is very good at delivering is that current CPU's ISAs exports a model that doesn't exis…