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by wild_egg 11 days ago
There are a ton of optimization opportunities that hinge on the intent of a piece of code which static compilers can never detect at scale. LLMs can actually navigate that and write surprisingly optimal assembly.

I've had all my side projects being written in x64 for the last 6 months and it is shockingly effective.

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They can navigate that, if specifically targeted towards that, with proper adversarial reviews (including human reviews).

The question is, if one takes their time and has enough competence to do that.