17 Feb
2018
17 Feb
'18
5:02 a.m.
I suspect that back in the day Fortran may have beat C for scientific
computations (vector stuff would be my guess). But x86 extensions do
vectors as do the GPUs so I don't know of anything that beats C in a
big way.
On Fri, Feb 16, 2018 at 05:56:59PM -0500, Arthur Krewat wrote:
Has ANY language (except assembler) EVER outperformed
C in a big way?
Give or take any optimizations that may be done by either?
On 2/16/2018 5:28 PM, Larry McVoy wrote:
>I'm no lisp expert, not by any stretch, but I've never seen a lisp
>program that out performed a well written C program.
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