How well do you know GCC's optimizer?

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How well do you know GCC's optimizer?

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You owe it to yourselves to go here and take the quiz! Awesome!

http://ridiculousfish.com/blog/archives ... -optimize/
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Nice one, very informative.
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I was wrong on the first one. The reason i answered that it wouldn't optimize, was because i am learning scala, which can't optimize non-tail-recursive recursive functions, even though it is a functional language, so i thought that it was very hard if not impossible to do.
Now that i think about it, i think i read somewhere that the reason scala couldn't do it, was that it was limited by the JVM, not sure though.

The rest of the questions i just answered yes to, since i have heard about all sorts of crazy ways compilers can optimize code in. It proved to be a good tactic, since it was right on all but one.

but no, i don't really have a clue about what GCC can optimize and what it cant :P
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Nice, i only got one wrong but i guessed most as i'm not that familiar with GCC but it's pretty sweet none the less.
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A lot of guessing here as well, but I did learn a few things. :)
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