Part of it was the sort of giant blind spot that "C is a low level language" creates that made even Intel forget how many man-years of optimization were actuall

Part of it was the sort of giant blind spot that "C is a low level language" creates that made even Intel forget how many man-years of optimization were actually in C compilers and the attendant hubris that "oh we can whip up something that'll beat it between now and when we start shipping the chips"