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How close can pure functional programming get to C?
Programmers are debating a piece by Richard Feldman asking how close pure functional languages can get to C in performance. The piece examines what overhead immutable data and functional styles really cost compared to hand-optimized C, and what compilers can or cannot eliminate. Readers are arguing over benchmarks, memory layout, garbage collection and whether idiomatic functional code can ever match C's speed.
Why now: Performance comparisons between functional languages and C are a perennial flashpoint among developers, and a new analysis has reignited the debate.
Richard FeldmanCfunctional programming
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