I tried it, back when I was doing a lot of assembly language programming in college. I lost to the compiler miserably every time. SIMD is kind of a special ca

I tried it, back when I was doing a lot of assembly language programming in college. I lost to the compiler miserably every time. SIMD is kind of a special case. The vast majority of code I've written in my life has not been SIMD'able. Heck, the vast majority of the code I've written hasn't even been for-loops. I'm interested to see what kind of (non-SIMD) code can be done better in hand-coded assembly than from an optimizing compiler, for real programs.