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rbanffy on March 2, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Speed Is the Killer Feature

I would expect the compiler to get rid of that loop.

bee_rider on March 2, 2021 [–]

The story is from 1990. Nowadays you would probably have to be a little bit more clever. Maybe toss in a volatile variable?

rbanffy on March 2, 2021 | [–]

In pretty sure 1990's compilers would do that.

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