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csl on July 6, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: How Swift could potentially be faster than Objecti...

> I remember the days when C was just yet another systems programming language deemed too slow for any serious work.

I've heard that remark several times. Which languages were faster than C back then, except assembly? Fortran? Algol? BCPL?

pjmlp on July 6, 2014 [–]

Assembly of course. All higher level languages were still 2nd place to Assembly and had similar execution times across the board.

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