22 Sep
2020
22 Sep
'20
1:56 a.m.
On Mon, Sep 21, 2020 at 5:57 PM Clem Cole <clemc(a)ccc.com> wrote:
As the more and more features got added, the focus of
the language changed
... ney Chisnall's 2018 screed: C is not a low level language
<https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3212479>
Rereading that made me wonder: if someone retargeted an old compiler (pcc,
say) to produce i386 code, how much faster would it run than a VAX? I see
that there is a pcc derivative at <http://pcc.ludd.ltu.se/>, but supposedly
it has been heavily rewritten for C99 compliance and other things.
Not nearly as bad as the pile we got with 'modern' C++ [which I'm loath to
use].
You should be. It's loathsome. :-)