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I have always understood that C generally compiles almost directly to assembly with little to no abstraction overhead, and it would not require platform-specific ASM code.

You have always understood incorrectly then. I’d recommend a trip over to Godbolt and take a look at the assembler output from C code. Play around with compiler options and see the (often MASSIVE!) changes. That alone should tell you that it doesn’t compile “almost directly to assembly”.

But then note something different. Count the different instructions used by the C compiler. Then look at the number of instructions available in an average CISC processor. Huge swaths of the instruction set, especially the more esoteric, but performance-oriented instructions for very specific use cases, are typically not touched by the compiler.

In the very, very, very ancient days of C the C compiler compiled almost directly to assembly. Specifically PDP-11 assembly. And any processor that was similar to the PDP-11 had similar mappings available. This hasn’t been the case, however, likely longer than you’ve been alive.

Oh, sorry, did any of your pearls fall? Thanks for your precious “engagement”.

I guess it’s scary for some people to participate in even a conversation about something new with an open mind without being condescending.

Irony, thy name is … well, just check the user name. It’s all you need.

What’s relevant is how you latched on to “leftism” as cult-like … while reciting a whole bunch of right wing cult (especially QAnon) talking points about them.

Leftism doesn’t act like a cult. AMERICANS, left or right, are cultists.

I’m not in any fucking American political cult. I’m not American, I don’t live in the USA, and I think American political “thought” (for want of a better term) is more akin to a cancer than it is to anything useful.

And thus, by my standards, there is no American left in American politics. The leftmost American senator, congressman, or president is a right-lurching centrist by my standards. (And Biden is a slightly left-leaning full-on Nazi.)

(Also, tomorrow is Thursday. 😉 I’m more than half way through my Wednesday.)

Leftism acts like a cult.

Trump: [exists, has a cult-like following, is 100% right wing]

QAnon: [exists, is a literal cult, is 100% right wing]

Yeah, sure buddy. Whatever lets you look in the mirror without getting the urge to smash that face into a bloody pulp.

(It was a joke. The mandatory one whenever an etymology group is set up.)

I look forward to talking about insects!

I hate you so much right now.🤣

About that, yes. Not in-depth and not each day, obviously, but I have quite a sizable crowd I deal with on a regular basis. Comes from having a lot of former students I keep in touch with.

But you don’t understand! The USA is the entire world! Everybody else in the world is just like Americans or wants to be!🙄

I know five people with iPhones here. I interact with almost three orders of magnitude more people than five…

Off-Lemmy there’s always https://web3isgoinggreat.com/.