nubbler

We're probably more Irish than a lot of the "new Irish" people rorting their system in schemes like this

Another commenter in this thread used the phrase "complex abomination" which seems more and more apt the more I learn about Rust.

In the first case, if it is actually unreachable, I would never want that code ending up in my binary at all. It must be optimised out.

Your second case implies that it is reachable.