Another way of looking at it (although, I’m not sure if I believe this, haha)—it might be easy to guess what the the C compiler will spit out, for the proprieta

Another way of looking at it (although, I’m not sure if I believe this, haha)—it might be easy to guess what the the C compiler will spit out, for the proprietary bytecode known as “x86.” It is hard to guess what actual machine code (uops) it will be jitted to, when it is actually compiled by the x86 virtual machine.