This reminds me of when I made a program faster by adding a print statement to it. I am not able to find the program but I was able to create a new one as simil

This reminds me of when I made a program faster by adding a print statement to it. I am not able to find the program but I was able to create a new one as similar to it as I remember and it seems that this weird trick works in this program too. When I uncomment the puts("hi") line in the code below, the time it takes to run the program consistently changes from 5.6 to 5.4 seconds on my machine if I compile without optimizations. #include <stdio.h> int main() { long tri_side = 1; long tri_area = 1; long sq_side = 1; long sq_area = 1; while (sq_side < 1000000000) { if (sq_area == tri_area) { printf("tri:%ld sq:%ld area:%ld\n", tri_side, sq_side, sq_area); //puts("hi"); } if (sq_area < tri_area) { sq_area += sq_side * 2 + 1; sq_side += 1; } else { tri_area += tri_side + 1; tri_side += 1; } } }