I guess my point was that the optimizations available are the same (between those two snippets of code) if you end up in SSA form. Thinking about it now, I don'

I guess my point was that the optimizations available are the same (between those two snippets of code) if you end up in SSA form. Thinking about it now, I don't know what optimizations would be done before going to SSA and how they would be affected.