> Does this change improve the resulting binary? I hope so. - I propose to give the refactorings "Reduce scope of variable" and "Extract a function" (and the corresponding consequences) another look.
> I.e. does it make it smaller or faster? It is generally possible that a specific code generation variant will also affect the run time properties you mentioned. > Otherwise this change is useless churn - you're making the code more > complicated, longer and harder to read for practically no benefit. I imagine that there other reasons you could eventually accept for this use case, aren't there? Regards, Markus