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by piinbinary 127 days ago
That stuck out to me as well.

I wonder if there could be a bug where extra code runs but the result is discarded (and the code that runs happens to have no side effects).

The post also says

> That is roughly 1 billion iterations

but that doesn't sound right because GCC's version runs in only 0.047s, and no CPU can do a billion iterations that quickly.