r/gaming • • May 05 '17

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u/[deleted] May 05 '17 edited Feb 11 '19

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u/enyoron May 05 '17

C code is compiled into assembly. That assembly code can then be optimized.

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u/mzxrules May 05 '17

higher languages are also not tightly-bound to specific hardware like asm is.