[aw1621107]

Guess I need to pay more attention to the template code I use. I knew that they tended to rely very heavily on inlining for good performance, but I haven't read as much about the presence/absence of dead code, though to be fair maybe the deadness isn't always obvious to the programmer?

In any case, thanks for correcting me!

[ncmncm]

I should add that most of the Standard library will not often have many visibly dead code branches to prune. Most of what gets discarded is arguments and calls to no-op functions, all the scaffolding. But there is a lot of that. So, for example, an iterator on std::function isn't typically a pointer, but after optimization the instructions left standing are the same as if it was one.

[ncmncm]

Oops: s/std::function/std::vector/