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Definitely. Some of the most efficient C code I have seen is incomprehensible to anyone but a C expert and even then it takes several minutes to understand all of the nuances of what might only be a 4-line function.


I experienced exactly this when I cracked open the source to a GNU tool to see if I could figure it out.




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