13 Mar
2023
13 Mar
'23
10:28 p.m.
On 3/13/23, Bakul Shah <bakul(a)iitbombay.org> wrote:
You can't drop features from a widely deployed language;
It has been done, with advanced warning of the deprecation, and over
several iterations of the standard so that there's advanced warning.
But it's rare and not advisable.
But you can create new subsets of the full standard.
but while
we are dreaming, what I'd like to see is a total *ban* on any and
all optimizations. What you get is what you see!
Be careful what you wish for. That just won't fly on modern computer
architectures, with their many execution units and complicated memory
hierarchies. Not if you want anything resembling reasonable
performance that is also maintainable.
-Paul W.