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A Lot of Instructions

I am busy writing papers these days, but I wanted to share two surprising statistics.

A trace of the hello world program written in C executes 500,000 BAP IL statements. That’s a lot. But a trace of the hello world program written in C++ executes 7,500,000 BAP IL statements.

Wow. Computers are amazing, and amazingly complex.

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