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> it gets hard to benchmark “algorithms” The cleverest of all C compilers that I know do not even attempt to rewrite algorithm to a "smarter" one (they're not
by flamedoge 10y ago
> it gets hard to benchmark “algorithms”
The cleverest of all C compilers that I know do not even attempt to rewrite algorithm to a "smarter" one (they're not there.. yet). All this does is translate popcount algorithm to a hardware instruction, which one would presume affects the performance linearly.