On Mon, Sep 21, 2020 at 5:57 PM Clem Cole <clemc@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
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].