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		mattgrice 22 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: When compilers surprise you Gauss supposedly did it when he was 7. The hardest part for the compiler is figuring out that you have a loop that computes that sum and does nothing else important.

saagarjha 22 days ago [–]

Unfortunately I don’t have a hiring pipeline filled with Gausses

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