alt Hacker NewsMy question is in the context of doing those optimizations yourself, understanding what can be done to make the code more efficient and how to code it up, not the compiler engineering to make that happen.
My question is in the context of doing those optimizations yourself, understanding what can be done to make the code more efficient and how to code it up, not the compiler engineering to make that happen.
Yikes, gross. That’s like an option of last resort IMO. I’d rather maintain the clean loop-based code unless I had evidence that the compiler was doing the wrong thing and it was in my critical path.