Re: MSDN volatile sample
This can happen only if the compiler can reliably deduce that the loop
condition is never changed while it runs.
"George" <George@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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Yes Alexander,
MSDN has no formally description about how to optimize loop. It is in this
discussion, some guy mentioned that loop,
while (condition)
{
// loop statement
}
could be optimized to
if (condition)
{
for (;;)
{
// loop statement
}
}
do you have any comments?
regards,
George
"Alexander Grigoriev" wrote:
"George" <George@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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Thanks Bo,
In this discussion, I feel Visual Studio compiler will do some wrong
optimization, which assumes that loop control variable will not be
changed
by
another thread (I think this is what MSDN tells us). But actually, when
we
MSDN sample actually doesn't mention possible loop optimization anywhere.
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