The fact that safe language implementations have to think hard about how to handle null pointer exceptions safely should have been a warning sign that null pointers are a bad thing to have in a language. Sadly nearly always unheeded.
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A decent compiler would automatically hoist them out of loops.
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It’s surprisingly tricky in some cases, when the nullable pointer values are in memory instead of SSA values.
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