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C Is Not a Low-level Language. Your computer is not a fast PDP-11. (queue.acm.org)
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[-] yogthos@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago

I imagine it would be the same dynamic, and you could have an emulation layer on the chip with its own instruction set for legacy code while providing direct access to the native instruction set.

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