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by kangalioo 970 days ago
Good point. When I'm going back and forth writing code and checking its assembly, I also reason about the compiler almost like an intelligent being:

"oh, it doesn't see this condition, so if I help it a little bit, then... Ah now it unrolled, and inlined, but accidentally trashed instruction cache, how will I convince it not to..."