[kaba0]

How often have you met compiler bugs? Also, humans absolutely can’t produce better code than compilers, at least not reliably. All those minor improvements that compilers routinely do does add up. And noone wants to write arcane hacks that make code unmaintainable and may not even provide a performance benefit (CPUs are finicky beasts, sometimes the seemingly worth option is faster)

I very much want my computer to work as hard as it can to make my code more performant for free. What I would like to see more is a separate debug and release build mode, where the former can go as fast as it can without optimizations, while the latter can be as slow as it wants and result in the most optimal binary it can produce. Zig does that for example.