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26.1.50; Byte compiler confuses two string variables

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From: Phil Sainty <psainty <at> orcon.net.nz>
To: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> gmail.com>
Cc: Gemini Lasswell <gazally <at> runbox.com>, bug-gnu-emacs <bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+psainty=orcon.net.nz <at> gnu.org>, 31688 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#31688: 26.1.50; Byte compiler confuses two string variables
Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2018 00:32:25 +1200

On 2018-06-03 11:54, Noam Postavsky wrote:
> What, you don't like optimization? ;)

I generally dislike it when byte-compiled and interpreted code
give different results.

Offhand I'm struggling to imagine there being really significant
benefits to this optimisation; whereas I can easily imagine that
any bugs on this account, while no doubt unlikely, could be
amazingly painful to track down if the bug only occurred in byte-
compiled code, and instrumenting the function for debugging
simply made the bug go away.

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