Re:Ask HN: Can someone explain why this line exists?
by Dylan16807 on Thursday May 30, 2013 @09:26PM
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Register renaming is one of the most very basic levels of optimization. I challenge you to find me a single optimizing compiler that slows down when you give names to temporary results. Hell, I can show you non-optimizing compilers that suffer no slowdown from code like this.
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