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KeplerBoylast Friday at 11:50 AM3 repliesview on HN

kind of expected gcc to see right through the 300 gigs of code and compile it down to the tenish instructions.


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bspammerlast Friday at 12:18 PM

They disabled optimisations:

> Lets compile the code, disabling optimizations with /Od to make sure that the pesky compiler doesn’t interfere with our algorithm

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oneeyedpigeonlast Friday at 12:20 PM

> disabling optimizations with /Od

And that weird flag is because it's a windows compiler: cl.exe, not gcc.

encomlast Friday at 1:07 PM

I'm curious what GCC would do if it wasn't purposely lobotomised and fed 300 GB of this nuclear waste.

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