On: Why Isn't Functional Programming the Norm? [video]

[gpderetta]

Never written even a simple C compiler, but I, and most c++ programmers that care about performance I think, do have a decent idea what code g++ is going to generate.

[asjw → gpderetta]

But g++ is probably better than you at producing fast code for whatever architecture you run it on.

[gpderetta → asjw]

Of course it is, that's why I let it generate it.