Actually, the results were far worse and way less impressive than what the media said.

the c compiler results or the physics results this post is about?

The C compiler.

of course the results were much worse than what was communicated on the media, it was content marketing not an attempt to build a better c compiler.

His point is going to be some copium like since the c compiler is not as optimized as gcc, it was not impressive.

You probably don’t know what you’re talking about.

Why wasn't the C compiler it made impressive to you?

I found this was the least impressive bit about it https://github.com/anthropics/claudes-c-compiler/issues/1

It didn’t work without gcc and it was significantly worse than gcc with gcc optimizations disabled.