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STOP WRITING C (lemmy.world)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (2 children)

There are actual use cases where direct memory access and pointer magic can be very efficient or almost necessary. We work a lot with large images and basically always the first steps are some pointer operations.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

What kind of pointer operations?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Sounds like you just need a bigger graphics card to me. 😂