It's easy to observe software getting slower over time. It's nice to periodically reflect on software features that have become faster: sound codecs, JS execution, CSS engines.
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Are there any PLs that define a main function like this?
fn main(args, stdin, stdout, env) -> exit code
YAML is a funny language: it's not Turing complete, but it can have arbitrary code execution bugs.
Computing AMD-specific instructions on Intel by just brute-forcing the whole execution space and seeing which values differ: