On Thursday, 5 December 2013 at 19:58:17 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
On 12/5/2013 7:27 AM, Paulo Pinto wrote:
It doesn't need to extract every ms out of the hardware as C
and
C++ developers always try to do, but to be fast enough to be
able
to fulfill the task.
Although C and C++ are capable of extracting every ms out of
the hardware as far as any compiled language goes, the number
of programmers who are actually able to get those results are
small. Just because someone writes a program in C or C++
doesn't at all mean that they're getting the most out of the
machine.
Fully agree.
Additionally there seems to be a contiguous disease when using
those languages, where one tries to micro-optimize every code
line as it gets written.
--
Paulo
