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Re:Making the obvious code fast (2016) by saagarjha on Wednesday April 17, 2019 @03:42PM (#19685787)
It's rare, but it can happen occasionally. A just-in-time compiler has access to tracing and profiling that a ahead-of-time compiler may not, which means that it can do things like inline a virtual method call that is actually monomorphic at runtime.
Re:Making the obvious code fast (2016) by maxxxxx on Wednesday April 17, 2019 @04:02PM (#19685964)
“occasionally”

That’s the keyword here.

Re:Making the obvious code fast (2016) by saagarjha on Wednesday April 17, 2019 @09:11PM (#19687878)
I was responding to a comment that had the word "never" in it.