On 3/24/16, Simon Slavin <slavins at bigfraud.org> wrote: > > I want the next generation of compilers to require > that the programmer specify an initial value (a constant, not a calculated > value) for every variable they define, including every array element when > they define an array.
At https://www.sqlite.org/src/info/03b2a622?ln=3553-3560 is just one example where unnecessary local variable initialization has a large performance impact. There are *many* other such examples in SQLite. This one just has the best comment. -- D. Richard Hipp drh at sqlite.org
