Someone should tell him about D...

[max haughton]

On Thursday, 2 June 2022 at 13:38:27 UTC, Araq wrote:
> On Thursday, 2 June 2022 at 11:51:30 UTC, forkit wrote:
>> On Thursday, 2 June 2022 at 10:36:24 UTC, twinbee wrote:
>>>
>>
>> Well, you know what they say:
>>
>> "The weakness of the C language comes from its strength"
>
> Assembly instruction `mov rcx, [rax]`. Cost: 1 cycle. Or 500.
>
> It's not 1980 anymore, there is hardly a benefit in looking at 
> the assembler, you need to measure things. Musk is surprisingly 
> bad at working from "first principles" sometimes.

Can even be zero on Zen3 with the stack to register file 
optimization.