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by mikeash 4254 days ago
A sufficiently smart compiler could optimize a string of strcat calls to remove the redundant length finding. I have no idea if real compilers actually would....
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srtjstjsj 4254 days ago
Java does, for the "+" operator.
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mikeash 4254 days ago
Oh yes, nice example! So there's precedent for C compilers doing something similar.
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