Horizon Posted September 13 Share Posted September 13 Your attention is invited to the fifth part of an e-book on undefined behavior. This is not a textbook, as it's intended for those who are already familiar with C++ programming. It's a kind of C++ programmer's guide to undefined behavior and to its most secret and exotic corners. The book was written by Dmitry Sviridkin and edited by Andrey Karpov. C++ programmer's guide to undefined behavior: part 5 of 11 by Dmitry Sviridkin From the article: However, all this fuss with removing and adding const anywhere in the code eliminates this set of optimizations. So, a repeated access by a constant reference to the same data member or member function doesn't need to be cached at all. Note. It's worth mentioning that programmers have unrealistic expectations about the compiler optimizing code when they add more const. Here's a good note on the topic: "Why const Doesn't Make C Code Faster". View the full article Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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