>I don't know, but it seems that it is generally assumed that a C++ 'optimizer' always successfully speeds up code. I really wonder about that. I've also NEVER done C++ code, much less use an optimizer for it.
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>I could see, for instance, C++ 'basic code' possibly having lots of extra code generated to handle a variety of circumstances and an optimizer (now knowing the exact context of things) simply stripping out extraneous code not relevant to the situation.
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I don't use C++ myself, just a very small one *g*. I just heard that the optimizer does it's job, although maybe not always succesful


>In such a case the code would no doubt run faster than the same code not 'optimized', but I think the "magic" of optimization probably doesn't extend to 'internally rewriting the programmer's code to run as fast as possible'.
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>cheers

I really don't know how the optimization does it job. Just some thoughts, maybe it has an internal table to machine instruction of how much time the processor will take for each code. Does it generate a delay/stall for processor. Based on that it generate the fastest instruction. Just some thoughts :-)

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