C Is Not a Low-level Language (2018) (queue.acm.org)
recommended by 1 user | 2019 | 343 points by pcr910303 | c and c++ | original thread |
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uticus Oct 20, 2020 | on: ARM chips have an instruction with JavaScript in the name | context

My favorite article on this: "C Is Not a Low-level Language: Your computer is not a fast PDP-11"

Hacker news post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16967675

and again: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21888096

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1. C Is Not a Low-Level Language (queue.acm.org)
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