short, shameful confession

[Stephen Clamage]

mikey at ontek.com (michael "krill-man" lee) writes:

|I think my point is:  If there were some way to know whether the
|expressions used as operands to && and || were pure and free of side
|effects, an extra measure of optimization might be attainable by an
|inspired compiler.

Yes indeed, and some compilers do this.
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Steve Clamage, TauMetric Corp, steve at taumet.com