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>It's a nice reminder that for the ultimate performance, there is no substitute for knowing exactly what the assembler is doing.

I didn't realize viewing the assembly of a compiled binary was something reserved for C. Someone should tell rust.godbolt.org that it's not supposed to exist.



Go read the second place C entry[1]. Its a JIT for assembly code.

[1] https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/215216/high-thr...


I think their point is that C is sufficiently close to assembler that you know exactly what assembly any given line of C will produce. This is an old canard which is not really true (https://zenhack.net/2015/08/02/c-is-not-portable-assembly.ht...), but it's common among people who derive a sense of identity from writing C.




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