Absolutely. See [1] for instance. Superoptimization has been around since the 80s and at the first superoptimizer by Alexia Massalin targeted the 68000 instruct

Absolutely. See [1] for instance. Superoptimization has been around since the 80s and at the first superoptimizer by Alexia Massalin targeted the 68000 instruction set. [1] http://superoptimization.org/w/images/f/f1/Wp4.pdf http://superoptimization.org/w/images/f/f1/Wp4.pdf