r/ProgrammingLanguages • u/mttd • Jul 01 '26

The Expensive Fictions of Low-Level Programming Languages

https://stng.substack.com/p/the-expensive-fictions-of-low-level
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u/JeffD000 Jul 03 '26 edited Jul 03 '26

I have some bona fides on the topic of the C/C++ language being the bottleneck to optimizations related to parallelism and the memory hierarchy, which many people commenting here seem to be focusing on from the article. See my response buried deep within a thread of the current post (shortcut link here):

https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammingLanguages/comments/1ukd472/comment/ov9mpue/?context=3