alt Hacker NewsAnd yet despite that theoretical limit C compiles faster than any other language. Even C++ is very fast if you are not using header-only style.
What’s better? Rust? Haskell? Swift?
It’s very hard to do multithreading at a more granular level without hitting amdahl’s law and synchronization traps.
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pjmlp • today at 6:55 AM
No it doesn't, try it against a language with modules support, even the oldie Turbo Pascal for MS-DOS.
It reminds me of the joke that "I can do math very fast", probed with a multiplication and immediately answering some total bollocks answer. - "That's not even close" - "Yeah, but it was fast"
Sure, it's not a trivial problem, but why wouldn't we want better compilation results/developer ergonomics at the price of more compiler complexity and some minimal performance penalty?
And it's not like the performance doesn't have its own set of negatives, like header-only libraries are a hack directly manifested from this compilation model.