Simen kjaeraas <simen.kja...@gmail.com> wrote:
My understanding of the term:
- Compiles to native code
forgot:
that is close in speed to that of handwritten assembly
- Gives direct access to low-level primitives (pointers,
register-size integers, bitwise operations)
- Allows pointer arithmetic
- Does not stand in the way of getting low-level work done
- Has a well defined ABI
- Lets you do manual memory management
Not sure which languages do fit this definition, except of
course C, C++ and D.
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Simen
