> Yes, but it would be just as easy to write an "assembly compiler" that did the same optimizations on your program text. While there are ways to optimize mach

> Yes, but it would be just as easy to write an "assembly compiler" that did the same optimizations on your program text. While there are ways to optimize machine code without extra debug information, no, what you've said is not true. It is not nearly as easy to optimize machine code as it is to optimize C.