> Since real instruction sets have to be practical for production use, I imagine it would be harder to get the same effect. I'm not so sure. Have you ever hand

> Since real instruction sets have to be practical for production use, I imagine it would be harder to get the same effect. I'm not so sure. Have you ever hand-optimised asm? I recall spending hours if not days trying to reduce the instruction count by 1 or 2 instructions in a tight DSP loop (Motorola 56k). It always seems like an interesting puzzle to me.