seems to me like the real problem is the burden of knowledge required to intuit how C++ compilers will or won't optimize the code you write. I know this has bee

seems to me like the real problem is the burden of knowledge required to intuit how C++ compilers will or won't optimize the code you write. I know this has been an ongoing refrain for years now but this sort of thing has driven me away from using C++ personally. I wish there was a better syntactic system for denoting where you do and don't want certain optimizations to be applied.