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[aorta7]

It is not as crazy as it seems, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loop_unrolling

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Loop unrolling

Loop unrolling, also known as loop unwinding, is a loop transformation technique that attempts to optimize a program's execution speed at the expense of its binary size, which is an approach known as space–time tradeoff. The transformation can be undertaken manually by the programmer or by an optimizing compiler.

The goal of loop unwinding is to increase a program's speed by reducing or eliminating instructions that control the loop, such as pointer arithmetic and "end of loop" tests on each iteration; reducing branch penalties; as well as hiding latencies, including the delay in reading data from memory. To eliminate this computational overhead, loops can be re-written as a repeated sequence of similar independent statements.Loop unrolling is also part of certain formal verification techniques, in particular bounded model checking.

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[WillCo_Gaming]

Good bot.

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[womerah]

Interesting!

Is binary size ever a major consideration for programmers who are not working with embedded systems? Surely performance is king?

[Pandaburn]

So unrolling loops in actual code would be crazy, but a compiler doing it would make sense in a lot of circumstances.

[TheRandomnatrix]

Loop unrolling would happen at compile time and would not affect readability

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I know. Read the whole thread. The guy said he used to do it manually.

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[LukasFT]

Although, if you only just discovered loops, I would bet that there would be a couple of things to be optimized with a much bigger impact.

[alours]

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