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		tgv on Dec 11, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How many lines of C it takes to execute a + b in P... One: return 1.7112245243e98 Joking aside: these are not catch-all comparisons. Nor is the article. But Python is mucher slower and much safer than C. It's easier to start in Python than in C.

aebtebeten on Dec 11, 2023 [–]

;-P Just to be pedantic, if you're going to all the trouble to give (modulo lack of a repl) a wrong answer fast, might as well do it really quickly:

    return 0;

in the hopes that compiles down to something like:

    xor rax, rax
    ret

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