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[01:50:17 CDT(-0500)] <Bosmon> It causes the VM to "deoptimise" the function containing them
[01:50:21 CDT(-0500)] <colinclark> ouch
[01:50:34 CDT(-0500)] <colinclark> both *Monkey and V8?
[01:51:07 CDT(-0500)] <Bosmon> Unknown.... we would have to "fiddle" that too : P Although testing performance on these micro-operations is always extremely fraught