That just means the guys that optimised the code generators of the GCC compiler did an excellent job.

I bet everyone who uses the GCC compiler is glad that it's programmers didn't take a hands-off attitude.

Yup. The GCC people work hard so the rest of us don't have to.

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I wanted to explore how Perl's closures can be manipulated, and ended up creating an object system by accident.
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