>could you clarify what you mean by "eliminate" here. He's talking about a common compiler optimization: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_code_elimination ht

>could you clarify what you mean by "eliminate" here. He's talking about a common compiler optimization: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_code_elimination https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_code_elimination Some compilers are smart enough to not run code that doesn't have any side effects. (Running a function a million times in a row but never doing anything with the results) Hopefully golang bench is smart enough to not be that smart.