There was a similarly nasty thread on the llvm-dev list recently. I wonder if it was this Stefan Kanthak who started that thread. EDIT: it was! https://groups.

There was a similarly nasty thread on the llvm-dev list recently. I wonder if it was this Stefan Kanthak who started that thread. EDIT: it was! https://groups.google.com/g/llvm-dev/c/rHqbxHuHxVY/m/J8QommzcAwAJ https://groups.google.com/g/llvm-dev/c/rHqbxHuHxVY/m/J8Qommz... EDIT2: the lesson to be learned here is that Stefan might be sharp enough to know great stuff about compiler codegen but if he wanted to make an improvement he is going about it all wrong. It's hard to understand his motivation here.