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On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 02:49:16PM -0000, Stephen Pelc wrote:
> There's nothing that makes a program in one language execute any
> faster than one in another language other than the quality of
> the implementation of the compiler. That in turn assumes that
> performance is the primary objective. Outside the fat desktop
> world, code density may be more important.
Actually, these days, that also applies on the fat desktop. The
default build options on the Linux kernel went from -O2 to -Os over a
year ago, as it produced both smaller *and* faster code. Cache misses
are now so expensive that (e.g.) unrolling loops is no longer worth it
on modern processors, as you push too much code out of the CPU cache.
Hugo.
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