6 Dec
2024
6 Dec
'24
6:01 p.m.
Andrey Semashev wrote:
On 12/6/24 20:52, Peter Dimov via Boost wrote:
Andrey Semashev wrote:
I don't trust the optimizer. Because it failed me more than once.
That's not the point.
The point is to make life easier for the optimizer, by giving it more information to work with (in the form of the fixed extent).
I've already relieved it from work by not writing the unnecessary checks. :)
Sure, but you also didn't write the necessary checks that would have caught a bug where you accidentally read past the end of the packet due to a bad copy and paste.