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Obligatory ‘C is not a low-level language’ blog post.

Standard C doesn’t specify any specifically low-level detail, no cache, no vector instructions, nothing.

But we're not expecting that the produced C (or LLVM IR) has already had target-specific optimization applied, so as long as the C compiler is an optimizing compiler, that's not a problem?

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