A catalog of side effects
Link: https://bernsteinbear.com/blog/compiler-effects/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45891868
A catalog of side effects
Optimizing compilers like to keep track of each IR instruction’s effects. An instruction’s effects vary wildly from having no effects at all, to writing a specific variable, to completely unknown (writing all state).
bernsteinbear.com · Max Bernstein
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