I write in C++ almost every day but never have the need to optimize for speed. Even when you write straightforward code it's already blazingly fast.
I rarely use C++ but when I do it is for speed. It’s not uncommon that carefully crafted intrinsics can 10x the straightforward naive implementation.
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