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mod macros;

/// 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.
pub fn black_box<T>(dummy: T) -> T {
    unsafe {
        let ret = std::ptr::read_volatile(&dummy);
        std::mem::forget(dummy);
        ret
    }
}