On Wed, 5 Sep 2018 09:30:22 +1000, Tyga <cyberfo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Ha HA ! Good one ! > CPUs, such as Intel/AMD x64 > are vastly more complex so "optimising" C compilers are trying to make > something simple take advantage of something far more complex. Ironically, because of the complexity in the CPUs, many of the optimizations make less of a difference now -- they're essentially optimizing just in time compilers under the hood, so even terrible code will run acceptably quickly. -- Ori Bernstein