> and even claimed to be faster than C for certain cases
-a promise made for pretty much every language ever. Just need a couple of compiler tune ups. Not trying to be critical, that just gave me a chuckle.
It can be true although the "certain cases" may be quite a small set and there are likely to be many cases where C is faster than language X (where X includes Swift).
The whole aliasing bit was just weird and detracts from the piece. Anyone who is doing pointer-based-operations in base C is using restrict as appropriate.
Is that really true? Sure in highly optimised low level code it can be true. But in general code when can the compiler know that there is no aliasing. Isn't this the reason that Fortran can be faster than C in many cases?
-a promise made for pretty much every language ever. Just need a couple of compiler tune ups. Not trying to be critical, that just gave me a chuckle.
It can be true although the "certain cases" may be quite a small set and there are likely to be many cases where C is faster than language X (where X includes Swift).
The whole aliasing bit was just weird and detracts from the piece. Anyone who is doing pointer-based-operations in base C is using restrict as appropriate.
Is that really true? Sure in highly optimised low level code it can be true. But in general code when can the compiler know that there is no aliasing. Isn't this the reason that Fortran can be faster than C in many cases?