Dug up this historic example from glibc of why optimizing compilers are a necessary mitigation against hideous code: https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=blob;f=string/strstr.c;hb=0ecb606cb6cf65de1d9fc8a919bceb4be476c602 …
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And you end up with code that's impossible to debug/verify/audit because it's not even obvious what it's doing.
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Welp, in this case the impossibility of maintenance is an implementation choice. Had the author stated: "this is naive linear search or...
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