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> one that's just a notch above the assembler.

That has never been true, unless you are writing programs against a PDP-11. C compilers can change even the O complexity of your algorithms, it's nowhere close to assembly.




> C compilers can change even the O complexity of your algorithms

I'd be curious to see an example...




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