[Daemon404]

> In my experience the behavior is stable i.e. doesn't often change between rebuilds (at least in VC++).

This is less true when you try and support many versions of many compilers, however, in my experience.

[Const-me]

Yeah, that makes sense. I usually deliver results of my work in binaries so I can choose the compiler, and inspect compiler output of performance critical parts. Authors of that decoder didn’t have that luxury.