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

[Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d]

On 7/15/2015 2:36 AM, "Ola Fosheim =?UTF-8?B?R3LDuHN0YWQi?= 
<ola.fosheim.grostad+dlang at gmail.com>" 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. Whether I need to do that is debatable... but it ensures
> that data structures are designed to be simd friendly from the start.

You also said:

"I use the GCC extensions/compiler hints…"

Being extensions, they aren't part of C itself.