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kahlonel ◴[16 Mar 25 20:04 UTC] No.43381785[source]▶

You mean the implementation is faster than the one in C. Because nothing is “faster than C”.

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1. knorker ◴[17 Mar 25 21:20 UTC] No.43392826[source]▶

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Fortran has been faster than C, because C has aliasing, preventing optimizations. At least for decades this was why for some applications Fortran was just faster.

It's not just "a sufficiently smart compiler", without completely unrealistic (as in "halting problem" unrealistic, in the general case) "smartness".

So no, C is inherently slower than some other languages.

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Zlib-rs is faster than C