How does L1 compare to C?
Alternatively, why are we rewriting all our C code in L1? Let me ask what is the difference between C code and Assembly code? Everything you can do in assembly you can do in C. You will probably need to call a library to do some things, but if you can do it in ASM, you can do it in C. A compiler converts both down to the same machine code that is executed by the same hardware. You can say that one is “faster” then the other, because your average compiler isn’t always smart enough to generate “good” machine code, but given the proper optimizations, there should be no speed difference. In other words, given the exact same machine code, it doesnt matter to the processor whether that code was written by a human in assembly and assembled to machine code, or written in C and compiled into machine code. All that information out of the way, let’s conceive of L1 as being a portable assembly language with all the same exact capabilities as C. Given the same exact capabilities and a good compiler
