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It'll be an interesting exercise to ask the Clang folks to relax backward compatibility, this designing a new language, if it makes their compiler go faster.

That could be deployed as a new language, or adding features to existing ones, like value types in Java, or even compiler switches that relax some C rules for faster speed. Imagine -fpointers_cant_be_cast_to_ints or -freorder_struct_fields.




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