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by Matumio 814 days ago
Agree, nice catch. Also, there are many other opportunities in this patch to hide memory safety bugs.

This is the kind of optimization I might have done in C 10 years ago. But coming back from Rust, I wouldn't consider it any more. Rust, despite its focus on performance, will simply not allow it (without major acrobatics). And you can usually find a way to make the compiler optimize it out of the critical path.