alt Hacker NewsWhat I get in these article is that the original intent on C language stands true.
Use C as a common platform denominator without crazy optimizations (like tcc). If you need performance, specialize, C gives you the tools to call assembly (or use compiler some intrinsic or even inline assembly).
Complex compiler doing crazy optimizations, in my opinion, is not worth it.
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eru • today at 7:29 AM
Well, C is a lie anyway: it's not how computers work any more (and I'm not sure it's how they ever worked).
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> Complex compiler doing crazy optimizations, in my opinion, is not worth it.
For these optimisations that are in the back-end, they are used for other languages that can be higher-level or that cannot drop to assembler as easily. C is just one of the front-ends of modern compiler suites.