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		rini17 on Oct 7, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: PLOS2021: ISO-C became unusable for operating syst... Some optimizations are low-hanging fruit only if you know length of the array. Which C avoids by design at all costs.

Gibbon1 on Oct 7, 2021 [–]

If you want better safety, runtime and compile time performance the lowest hanging fruit would be to fire the C standards committee and hard fork C++/C into C++ and C only ecosystems.

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