this post was submitted on 06 Oct 2023
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A Boring Dystopia

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Optimizing like it’s the early 80s and every byte is precious? Or do you mean something else?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Exactly. Using 10 obscure instructions to save 1 clock cycle.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Assuming it even does save it. The complier is going to do what it wants to do. Unless you really know your stuff any high level language is going to be a black box. One guy I worked with loved to do that but he would be able to prove that it did matter.