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Low-Level Optimization with Zig


The power of Zig's comptime code execution

Increased system resources and advances in IR transformations have enabled compiler backends like LLVM to deliver impressive results. You might think the reason is that high level languages are doing a lot of extra work, such as garbage collection, string interning, interpreting code, etc. Zig is designed to be easy to read, and macros which modify or create variables in a unrelated scopes just don't cut it.

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