That example has a boolean operator in it, so in a strict language will already be a boolean. A better example would be one that returned 0, so you’d have to a

That example has a boolean operator in it, so in a strict language will already be a boolean. A better example would be one that returned 0, so you’d have to add `== 0` to it. I kind of understand your point with asm, but with higher level languages we’re optimising for maintenance rather than performance.