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// Copyright Materialize, Inc. and contributors. All rights reserved.
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// Portions of this file are derived from the criterion project.
// The original source code was retrieved on February 19, 2020 from:
//
//     https://github.com/bheisler/criterion.rs/blob/76061c756347c0575bcfd044a9027dcf66f85a3e/src/lib.rs
//
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// this repository.

//! Extensions to `std::hint`.

/// A function that is opaque to the optimizer, used to prevent the compiler
/// from optimizing away computations in a benchmark.
///
/// This variant is stable-compatible, but it may cause some performance
/// overhead or fail to prevent code from being eliminated.
///
/// When `std::hint::black_box` is stabilized, this function can be removed.
pub fn black_box<T>(dummy: T) -> T {
    unsafe {
        let ret = std::ptr::read_volatile(&dummy);
        std::mem::forget(dummy);
        ret
    }
}