alt Hacker Newsyea, we certainly wouldn’t want regular user applications to run fast or respect user resources. can’t have that
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krior • yesterday at 6:29 PM
false dichtonomy
hn_submit • yesterday at 6:29 PM
I, for one, can't see any speed difference between a program written in Pascal (Total Commander, which I use every day) and one written in C++ (Windows Explorer).
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Even if that was the tradeoff, your average C/C++ program isn't notably fast or lean.