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0 pointsmasklinn3y ago0 comments

> Would you say all optimizations are worthless because they're not guaranteed?

Context is relevant, the context here is language semantics, not things going faster.

TCO is fine to make things go faster, like inlining, unrolling, LICM, ....

TCO is hot garbage when you rely on it for program correctness.

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Weird how none of that context was present in your first two iterations of the claim.

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0 pointsmasklinn3y ago0 comments

> Would you say all optimizations are worthless because they're not guaranteed?

Context is relevant, the context here is language semantics, not things going faster.

TCO is fine to make things go faster, like inlining, unrolling, LICM, ....

TCO is hot garbage when you rely on it for program correctness.

Weird how none of that context was present in your first two iterations of the claim.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse