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		jabl on Nov 7, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Perhaps Rust Needs "Defer" That was a long time ago. A decade or so ago Jim Meyering did experiments with a lot of allocators, and subsequently went on a spree removing NULL checks before free() in a lot free software toolchain projects (gcc, gdb, binutils, etc).

1propionyl on Nov 8, 2024 [–]

Despite the sparing number of cycles this saves per execution... I have to wonder how many cycles this has saved since.

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