This reminds me of the discussion many years ago: "In what cases is C faster than Assembler". This sounded as wired as the current question, but it wasn't. Tha

This reminds me of the discussion many years ago: "In what cases is C faster than Assembler". This sounded as wired as the current question, but it wasn't. That time C optimizers were getting better and better up to the point they knew "tricks", where you had to be a very, very good assembler programmer to compete. History seems to repeat.