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by xxs 889 days ago
Some 12-13y back (time does fly) Cliff Click (hotspot architect) had a series of blogs on optimizations, incl. the lattice checks (i.e. within bounds). Was quite insightful. It was called: "Too Much Theory" [0]

>What is optimized today may not be tomorrow.

Exactly. (Also most developers will have exceptionally hard time maintaining such code)

[0]: https://web.archive.org/web/20120328222841/http://cliffc.org...