[ot1138]

>I don't do much C++, but I have definitely found that engineers will just assert that something is "faster" without any evidence to back that up.

Very true, though there is one case where one can be highly confident that this is the case: code elimination.

You can't get any faster than not doing something in the first place.

[konstantinua00]

inb4 instruction (cache) alignment screws everythin up