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by blackflame7000 3409 days ago
It is necessary in order for the compiler to do transformation optimizations which do impact production code. Newbies shouldn't be writing production code without guidance anyways IMO.
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Thrillington 3409 days ago
Newbies should probably turn off optimization entirely.
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blackflame7000 3406 days ago
No argument there, or at the very least whole program optimizations
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