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by howdydoo 1675 days ago
I always thought of the last panel as an initially silly-sounding answer that could still be considered correct in some unexpected way. In this case it fits, because if you compile with `-Os`, xlatb is probably the ideal output. I doubt llvm can output xlatb, but I'd be pleasantly surprised if it could
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If this meme was posted to pouet or another demoscene site in the context of writing 4k (or other) space constrained demos, it would operate as you expected.

If space efficiency (or fitting in cache) are important, then this instruction being more compact but having worse execution performance could be a good tradeoff!