Good post. I'm a big fan of looking at the assembler code generated from programs - even if you are not optimising - it helps give a depth of understanding whi

Good post. I'm a big fan of looking at the assembler code generated from programs - even if you are not optimising - it helps give a depth of understanding which is simply not possible without doing it. Not to mention that the "smart" compiler is a myth - I've seen some downright stupid asm come out when the compiler is configured wrong - and it gets missed, even with profiling based optimisation targetting the area - because looking at assembler is actively discouraged. We are spoiled with IDEs and high level languages...