Indeed it does. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cfront https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cfront This should not be a surprise. Consider what happens on a modern CPU

Indeed it does. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cfront https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cfront This should not be a surprise. Consider what happens on a modern CPU after the preprocessors do their job, after the compilers do their job, when you're right down to machine code: the bare metal! But really, how bare is that metal? Not at all. Your so-called "machine language" just turns out to be another high level language that the CPU itself compiles down to the actual internal instructions that it executes, instructions that look nothing like what you thought was the machine language. It's all turtles, my friend. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superscalar_processor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superscalar_processor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtles_all_the_way_down https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtles_all_the_way_down