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@hacker-news-newest@feeds.twtxt.net I find it interesting to learn just how much the Go compiler can “optimize your code away”. That’s both good and bad.
The point on benchmarking the right thing is 100% spot on, same goes for testing too. The optimization problem however is a bit too contrived IMO. When would you possible write code (aside from very trivial things) where the compiler would optimize all your code away, thus making your benchmarking invalid? I want to see a real-world example of where someone has been caught out by this?

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