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Re:Will It Optimize? (2010) by mihai_ionic on Sunday October 26, 2014 @07:56AM (#8510846)
Is there any reason why something like the following should not work?

    while (condition)
    {
        a();
        if (!condition)
            break;
        b();
    }
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Re:Will It Optimize? (2010) by malisper on Sunday October 26, 2014 @12:24PM (#8511444)
Your example assumes that you can inline the calls to a and b. If you can't (for example if one of them calls themselves) then your optimization won't work.
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