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i know its completely out of scope but it would be interesting to see how windows wrappers of C/POSIX looked in comparison

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Talk about feeping creaturitus all you want but I would rather have wide support for potential changes. And who needs a program to fit two megs of code anymore anyway?

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And who needs a program to fit two megs of code anymore anyway?

Embedded systems developers. This becomes more important with the IoT, not less. Not to mention that even if you have GBs of RAM, you only have a few MB of L3 cache (to say nothing of the 64 KB of per-core L1 cache in Haswell...)