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If you mean takes 15ms vs 5ms to compile yes. However if you're talking executions speed those low hanging fruit optimizations were picked in the 1980's. What we're talking about here are optimizations that speed up some obscure benchmark on a disused architecture by 5%. Bonus no telling if performance is worse on next years silicon.



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