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Re: Loop unrolling



pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at said:
> As a matter of fact, is there still any strong reason not to delete
> empty loops in general? 

As a matter of fact, there is. Us embedded programmers are sometimes
compelled to write timing loops. I guess we should (and I usually do)
make those loops non-empty, but still ....
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