From: Alexander Terekhov (terekhov_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-10-01 08:07:30


Peter Dimov wrote:
[...]
> > Right. And any implementation capable to detect that the output
> > "goes to dev/null" is free to JIT-optimize it to nops. Good for
> > global environment (less climate change, etc.), you know.
>
> Why should the implementation bother to detect that? Observe nop and be
> happy.

Market forces. ;-)

regards,
alexander.