On Monday, 16 January 2017 at 19:03:17 UTC, albert-j wrote:
Thank you for all your answers. I was concerned because I'm dealing with a small function that is called many times and where the bulk of the calculations in the simulation takes place. So even 5% performance difference would be significant for me. But it is good to know that compilers are smart enough to optimize this.
A while ago I had to deal with that fact, that the optimizations that it does over several levels is often better than my own. Using shifts which obfuscates that I was actually doing a divide. I tried writing a unique array handler to shave a few operations and save time, only to get no real benefit from it.
