>>"Literal pool" optimization is usally found in many native compilers, but not in VFP.
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>How do you come to know this? It is something SOOOOOooo basic that I would have guessed it was done everywhere (compiler-wise).

VFP is interpreted, so the usual "native compiler" rules don't apply. Go into the FXP, and it will show you how it's translated at run-time.