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> When was the last time you reviewed the machine code produced by a compiler? ...

Any time I’m doing serious optimization or knee-deep in debugging something where the bug emerged at -O2 but not at -O0.

Sometimes just for fun to see what the compiler is doing in its optimization passes.

You severely limit what you can do and what you can learn if you never peek underneath.





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