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DisclaimerThis piece was originally published on the Red Hat Blog.In this article, I explain the upstream work I have been doing on a new constant expression interpreter for Clang.Constant expressions in C and C++One of the many techniques modern compilers use to improve the runtime performance of the compiled code is to perform computations at compile time instead of runtime, if possible. Nobody expects to actually see two integer literals being added at runtime if the compiler can easily do it...