Simply because I found what I quoted from the article to be a weird comment. What I mean is that there probably isn't very much overlap in the two-circle Venn d

Simply because I found what I quoted from the article to be a weird comment. What I mean is that there probably isn't very much overlap in the two-circle Venn diagram of 1) people who already are low-level enough to care about native CPU instructions and 2) those who can't think of good uses for a population count. I'm wasn't trying to be a jerk to the author. I just found it strange and would be happy to find out that I'm an idiot and forgot about ____ programmers who fall into that category. My comment was inviting such comments. (After all, if the author meant what they wrote there, apparently they fall into that camp...)