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Re:On the Madness of Optimizing Compilers by loup-vaillant on Tuesday March 08, 2016 @07:04AM (#11244762)
> This is one of the reasons gcc/llvm won: they don't care about that stuff. I mean, they care about performance, but not at all costs like these guys care.

Really? http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/kps2015/proceedings/KPS_201... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11219874

While GCC and LLVM do care about implementing the standard correctly, they show little mercy to the poor developer who failed to avoid one of the many sharp corners of undefined behaviour.

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Re:On the Madness of Optimizing Compilers by DannyBee on Wednesday March 09, 2016 @12:31PM (#11254289)
Yes. Really.

There was a long thread about this just a few days ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11219874)

I already commented there, and since i didn't always have pleasant things to say, i'm not going to repeat them here.

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