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Re:Building a data compression utility in Haskell using Huff... by wyager on Thursday July 04, 2024 @05:14PM (#40878104)
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?
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Re:Building a data compression utility in Haskell using Huff... by Twisol on Thursday July 04, 2024 @09:24PM (#40879266)
I think it was a joke about compilers removing code by reasoning about undefined behavior.
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