kind of expected gcc to see right through the 300 gigs of code and compile it down to the tenish instructions.
I'm curious what GCC would do if it wasn't purposely lobotomised and fed 300 GB of this nuclear waste.
> disabling optimizations with /Od
And that weird flag is because it's a windows compiler: cl.exe, not gcc.
They disabled optimisations:
> Lets compile the code, disabling optimizations with /Od to make sure that the pesky compiler doesn’t interfere with our algorithm