2009/6/26 Robert Rohde <raro...@gmail.com>: > My understanding has been that the PREprocessor expands all branches, > by looking up and substituting transcluded templates and similar > things, but that the actual processor only evaluates the branches that > it needs. That's a lot faster than actually evaluating all branches > (which is how things originally worked), but not quite as effective as > if the dead branches were ignored entirely. > > (I could be totally wrong however.) > You're right that dead code never reaches the parser (your "processor"), but ideally the preprocessor wouldn't bother expanding it either. I have vague recollection that it was fixed with the new preprocessor, as Simetrical said, but I have no idea how much truth there is in that.
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