• ulterno@programming.dev
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    20 hours ago

    Edit: Not sure why this is being downvoted.

    Perhaps because it would do better, being replaced with noop.

    A link time optimiser might actually do so.

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      18 hours ago

      That’s kind of what I meant by putting “subroutine” in quotes. You obviously wouldn’t write it like this, you’d just use a random large number with a bit of explanation.

      Oh well, live and learn. I’ll try to be clearer next time.

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        8 hours ago

        I just took the above comment as continuing the joke, but this explanation actually confuses me more.
        Well, I don’t really think you need to be very clear in this case. Jokes are more fun when you “get” them rather than have them explained.