On: I Do Not Know C: Short quiz on undefined behavior ...

[E6300]

I have to say, I have never encountered a program where compiling without optimizations made no difference. If you have seen that, then I would agree that C was a very, very poor choice for that particular domain.

[ArkyBeagle → E6300]

It made no measurable difference. The acceptance criteria for the system were not materially affected. Since the optimization did not improve the performance by that, it was generally set one way ( mostly off ) and let that way.

Teams I'm on have written some tight - but readable -code, too. Well-architected, low-latency, low-jitter.

[pjmlp → E6300]

Business applications, as it was common in the 90's.

Witting them in C or VB made no difference for the guys sitting at the desk.

[ArkyBeagle → pjmlp]

This ranged from networking equipment to phone switches to equipment control. Most of it was bare metal.

I've never written a business application in my life.