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Practical use is double-precision floating-point constants, preprocessor generated bit-flags, high-bits pointer tagging in dynamic languages, etc. Having to rea
by sparkie 4y ago
Practical use is double-precision floating-point constants, preprocessor generated bit-flags, high-bits pointer tagging in dynamic languages, etc. Having to read them from memory or expend multiple cycles to materialize them into a register defeats the point on even having them constant.