[plt-scheme] Are superfluous expressions optimized away?

They don't. But don't take my word for it. Do some timing tests.

Robby

On 2/20/07, Derick Eddington <derick.eddington at gmail.com> wrote:
> Are superfluous expressions, like say '() or (void) when not in tail- or
> binding- or pass-value-position or any other value-is-used position,
> optimized away (maybe only when compiled to byte-code)?  I'm wondering
> if conditional compilation macros like (debug expr ...) which expand to
> '() or (void) would incur zero performance penalty?  If not, the
> performance cost is probably very negligible?
>
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