I remember the days of seeing inline assembly in code (delphi). We griped about that code quite a bit, but this was in the days before "you can't outsmart the

I remember the days of seeing inline assembly in code (delphi). We griped about that code quite a bit, but this was in the days before "you can't outsmart the compiler". Was it clever: yes. Was it maintainable: no. Was it necessary: YES! This was drawing code, doing it via the normal language routines was just not a performant solution.