Conway's Game of Life, for the terminal, written in C
This is a near direct translation of my other implementation in Go.
I wrote this to see if switching to a non-gc'd language would make a significant performance impact.
Using the same logic in both programs, both Go and unoptimized C have roughly equivalent performance on my system.
However, compiling with the -O3 flag causes the C version to significantly outperform Go.
I have not taken many steps towards optimization. If you are interested in optimizing Conway's Game of Life, I recommend looking into HashLife or this StackOverflow thread.
gcc main.c -o a.out && ./a.out =
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... and so on