Faster sort?

[tsbockman via Digitalmars-d]

On Thursday, 7 April 2016 at 08:23:09 UTC, John Colvin wrote:
> But it definitely can eliminate an unused result. My 
> prediction: you took an array and sorted it, then did nothing 
> with the result, so it rightly concluded that there was no 
> point doing the sort. In any given case the compiler could be 
> removing some or all of the work.
>
> Laborious approach that defeats the optimisations you don't 
> want while keeping the ones you do:

It's easier to just output the result in some form. I typically 
calculate and display a checksum of some sort.