📝§ Aliasing

tags: § Programming Language § Programming language implementation

If aliasing is possible, a function call invalidates value analysis / cached value
Fortran used to be faster than C because of aliasing
Aliasing only matters if a reference is aliased with another mutable reference
- In Rust, mutable references never alias

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