[OT] The Usual Arithmetic Confusions

[Elronnd]

On Monday, 31 January 2022 at 06:36:37 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad 
wrote:
> In high level template code you get conditionals that always 
> are false, if you dont remove those then the code size will 
> increase. A good optimizer encourage you to write more high 
> level code.

I have no doubt it comes up _at all_.  What I am asking is that I 
do not believe it has an _appreciable_ effect on any real 
software.