> but who are these people who are so comfortable with disassembling a high level language binary, reading assembly, and then making statements about branch pre

> but who are these people who are so comfortable with disassembling a high level language binary, reading assembly, and then making statements about branch prediction and other such low level esoterica? i don't see any assembly here. the analysis is done by using a profiler. a very common tool available for most programming languages. https://timotijhof.net/wp-content/uploads/2020_profiling_figure1_flamegraph_intro.png https://timotijhof.net/wp-content/uploads/2020_profiling_fig...