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> Branch probability analysis | Branch prediction

> Peephole optimisations, idioms | Idioms

From the software side, what is it exactly that makes it so difficult to write a higher-level language that must be optimized, instead of a language that already exposes the optimizations in a friendly way?

("higher-level language" meaning c, not python or something)

parent uticus 3 years ago

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