Creator of LLVM, Clang, and Swift Says To Not Write Security Critical Code In C/C++

Kagamin via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Wed Jul 15 06:09:57 PDT 2015


On Wednesday, 15 July 2015 at 09:36:01 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad 
wrote:
>> You said it yourself that to get performance from C you need 
>> extensions, it's not provided by C semantics itself.
>
> No? I said I write "cpu independent simd" in my core 
> performance oriented loop as a starting point.

I mean this:

On Monday, 13 July 2015 at 07:11:35 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad 
wrote:
> Here's the deal: there is no such thing as a general purpose 
> (system) language in the empirical sense. We might have been 
> lead to believe that C or C++ were general purpose, but that 
> only happend because there were no visible viable alternatives. 
> C is more and more becoming a kernel/embedded language, C++ is 
> more and more becoming a legacy/niche language. C++ is only a 
> game dev language after you add various extensions (e.g. simd). 
> It is only a number-crunching language after you add some other 
> extensions.


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