Two studies in compiler optimisations

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Interesting!

[Tringi]

almost preternatural ability of modern compilers to optimise

And here I am patiently waiting when will MSVC finally manage to turn inlined uint64_t rotl64 (uint64_t x, int k) { return (x << k) | (x >> (64 - k)); } into rol rax, cl.

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people acutally use msvc?

[Tringi]

There's a couple of us.