I always imagined super computer coding being a place where assembly is considered abstract. If you are that close to the hardware then measuring your code in c

I always imagined super computer coding being a place where assembly is considered abstract. If you are that close to the hardware then measuring your code in clock cycles does make sense. The link below is to an article about 'div' optimization in compilers that gives more insight. [1] http://www.nynaeve.net/?p=115 http://www.nynaeve.net/?p=115