Re: Anyone know if the RB compiler calculates numeric expressions involving only literals and CONSTANTS at compile time.

[William Squires <wsquires at satx dot rr dot com>]

On Jun 27, 2007, at 11:16 AM, Charles Yeomans wrote:

>
> On Jun 27, 2007, at 12:07 PM, Daniel Stenning wrote:
>
>> Say you have a method:
>>
>> Function myFunc() As Integer
>>     return 1 + MYCONSTANT
>> End Function
>>
>>
>> Does anyone know if the RB compiler figures out that the return
>> expression
>> can be replaced by a numeric result calculated once at compile time ?
>>
>> ( ie performs a compile time optimisation )
>>
>
> Try it and see :)
>
How would you know, short of disassembling the code? :) Or see if  
there's a preference panel for optimizations (for Constant  
Folding)... :)

> Charles Yeomans
>
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