> C is close to the interface the hardware presents you – that is, the instructi...

		msla on April 26, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: I translated a simple C program to x86_64 and it w... > C is close to the interface the hardware presents you – that is, the instruction set – but far from what the hardware actually does. C isn't even close to that anymore, now that so many processors have SIMD ISAs which C can't usefully model.