> it just goes against the normal intuition. To me it's perfectly intuitive. However, the other example he gave blew me away: return if cond { ... } else

> it just goes against the normal intuition. To me it's perfectly intuitive. However, the other example he gave blew me away: return if cond { ... } else { ... } The compiler evaluating both results and chosing the right one using a cmov, rather than using a branch to evaluate just one result. My how times have changed.