More on __restrict
The __restrict keyword doesn’t affect how the compiler itself aliases pointers: instead, it’s about what the compiler can assume you, the progammer, may or may not have aliased.
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Load-hit-stores and the __restrict keyword
A load-hit-store is a large stall that occurs when the processor writes data to an address x and then tries to load that data from x again too soon. __restrict is a C++ compiler directive that helps avoid load-hit-store stalls.