Suboptimal Instruction Sequences

NOOOOOO!!!! YOU CAN'T JUST SPECIAL CASE A HANDFUL OF SUBOPTIMAL INSTRUCTION SEQUENCES!! THERE ARE SO MANY BEAUTIFUL GRAPH ALGORITHMS AND STATIC ANALYSES AND LICM AND GVN!!!!!!!!! ha ha peephole optimizer go brrr

A crying bespectacled Wojak panics over using special cases for suboptimal instruction sequences while a smug Wojak says, “ha ha peephole optimizer go brrr.” The joke contrasts sophisticated compiler optimizations with a simple peephole optimizer that works through crude local transformations, making it a reaction to elegant overengineering being defeated by a basic practical solution. EN: A crying bespectacled Wojak panics over using special cases for suboptimal instruction sequences while a smug Wojak says, “ha ha peephole optimizer go brrr.” The joke contrasts sophisticated compiler optimizations with a simple peephole optimizer that works through crude local transformations, making it a reaction to elegant overengineering being defeated by a basic practical solution.

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