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Ultimately, it's an optimizing compiler, and it's difficult/impossible to tell the compiler "make this code fast, but not too fast for these specific cases". T
by mcpherrinm 10y ago
Ultimately, it's an optimizing compiler, and it's difficult/impossible to tell the compiler "make this code fast, but not too fast for these specific cases". The same problem affects basically every language that isn't assembly.
- thristian 10y agoIt might even affect assembly, if your CPU's microcode optimizations are sufficiently aggressive.