alt Hacker NewsThey disabled optimisations:
> Lets compile the code, disabling optimizations with /Od to make sure that the pesky compiler doesn’t interfere with our algorithm
They disabled optimisations:
> Lets compile the code, disabling optimizations with /Od to make sure that the pesky compiler doesn’t interfere with our algorithm
I would have wanted to see them look at the assembly from various optimization levels to see if the compiler really did. Ideally o1 or something wouldn't see through this but would generate better code in other ways. Disabled optimizations often are really stupid about how they code gen.