Minimal druntime?

[Ethan]

On Sunday, 28 July 2019 at 12:00:19 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
> I am referring to the ISO C89 subset of the ISO C++98 
> programming language. which is now updated to the ISO C89 + ISO 
> C11 libraries as of ISO C++17, and will be updated to some C90 
> language constructs like aggregate initializers in ISO C++20.

Okay, but you understand that C++ was specifically designed as a 
superset of C, right? It's the exact opposite of my point. C++ 
added features to C; HPC# and -betterC remove them from their 
respective languages.

Your point that C is what you use to write faster code than C++ 
is also misguided. I regularly write much faster code in C++ than 
I ever could in C thanks to heavy use of inlining and templates. 
This is even more true historically on (for example) 32-bit 
Windows systems, where the C ABI was very stack-heavy yet I could 
use things like __fastcall to call functions with parameters in 
registers and avoid the stack entirely.