[AnIdiotOnTheNet]

Things like this make me question the wisdom of ever using higher level languages. We took the path of abstracting our description of what we want to happen away from processor instructions with the idea that we could write code that could then compile on multiple architectures without changes, but the reality is that we still often need to special case things even without performance considerations, and the farther we abstract the more performance seems to be impacted and the more often we seem to end up jumping through abstraction hoops rather than getting things done.

The minimalist in me wonders if maybe just using some kind of macro system on top of assembler plus a bytecode VM with the ability to drop to native instructions wouldn't ultimately be better.