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by 2ton_jeff 3227 days ago
Compelled to chime in here and say that you can just as easily write bad HLL that the compiler can't do much with in the first place.

Also back in 2016, I participated in a pseudo-challenge on the fasm board [1] and it is trivial to optimise both the C/C++ as well as hand-written assembly. IMO comparing how good a compiler is at optimising is akin to how good it is at figuring out your intentions (and they all suck at that).

1: https://board.flatassembler.net/topic.php?t=19103