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kaba0 on Dec 11, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: The best WebAssembly runtime may be no runtime

Obligatory ‘C is not a low-level language’ blog post.

Standard C doesn’t specify any specifically low-level detail, no cache, no vector instructions, nothing.

remexre on Dec 12, 2023 [–]

But we're not expecting that the produced C (or LLVM IR) has already had target-specific optimization applied, so as long as the C compiler is an optimizing compiler, that's not a problem?

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