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by Annatar 3130 days ago
For example, register allocation is a tedious process that bedeviled assembly programmers,

Yet more propaganda. I’ve been part of the cracking and demo scene since my early childhood. If you didn’t code in assembler you might as well not have taken part in it at all, because small fast code was everything. None of us ever had an issue with register allocation, nor do we face such issues today. Not 30+ years ago, not now.