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		pcwalton on June 10, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Comparing k-NN in Rust Blech. I'm pretty sure LLVM, not the frontend, is inserting those null checks for some reason.

kzrdude on June 10, 2014 [–]

The slice iterator yields `Option<&T>`, the None variant is represented by a null pointer. That's probably the null check.

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