Stuff like this is what I think of when I hear "compiler writers are smarter than you, don't micro-optimize". It's amazingly much better to have the compiler h

Stuff like this is what I think of when I hear "compiler writers are smarter than you, don't micro-optimize". It's amazingly much better to have the compiler hide this, than for application-level programmers to figure out the trick by themselves, and obfuscate their code accordingly. Sweet.