Nieminen Juha wrote:

>   Nowadays, however, the CPU's have evolved to such an extent and they are
> so extremely complicated, that the same tricks of the old asm coding do not
> hold anymore. To beat a good C-compiler it would require so much knowledge
> about the CPU (and often other hardware) that it's almost impossible for
> the average asm-coder.

The new complexity is also reason to pity the compiler writers!
 
-Mark Gordon

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