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		wyager on July 4, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Building a data compression utility in Haskell usi... You're doing extremely simple constant arithmetic here. GHC can optimize this type of thing away to nothing as well. Are we talking about contrived examples or real numerical bottlenecks?

Twisol on July 5, 2024 [–]

I think it was a joke about compilers removing code by reasoning about undefined behavior.

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