D for safety critical applications

[Gregor Mückl]

On Tuesday, 9 February 2021 at 13:42:51 UTC, Max Haughton wrote:
> On Tuesday, 9 February 2021 at 13:35:36 UTC, Gregor Mückl wrote:
>> On Tuesday, 9 February 2021 at 10:10:05 UTC, IGotD- wrote:
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> What architecture was this running on? I say that because small 
> is often not fast on a big machine - and the reason why fast 
> gave smaller code is probably because of the weird 
> non-determinism you get in big compilers as more stuff is 
> inlined giving way to more information for the optimizer to use 
> locally.

The specific project that allowed me to make that comparison had 
an ultra low power Cortex-M4. That's an in-order design with 3 
pipeline stages and no optimizations for branching. So it's 
primitive enough that raw instruction count translates directly 
into performance.