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I assume GP is talking about the bit in the article that goes

> RCT does this trick all the time, and even in its OpenRCT2 version, this syntax hasn’t been changed, since compilers won’t do this optimization for you.

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That makes more sense, I second their sentiment, modern compilers will do this. I guess the trick is knowing to use numbers that have these options.

There was a recent article on HN about which compiler optimizations would occur and which wouldn't and it was surprising in two ways - first, it would make some that you might not expect, and it would not make others that you would - because in some obscure calling method, it wouldn't work. Fixing that path would usually get the expected optimization.

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