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C++ compilation for consts prevents optimizer from constant-folding #46

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tjhance opened this issue Sep 21, 2021 · 1 comment

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tjhance commented Sep 21, 2021

The compiler has no way to know that the constants are really constant and has to look up the constant values each time they are used.

parno commented Sep 27, 2021

Can you elaborate, e.g., with an example? Are you saying that the value of the constant is recomputed each time it's used?

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