• Gabu@lemmy.worldBannedBanned from community
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      2 years ago

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

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        2 years 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.