Yes, very true! And more accurate than what I wrote. The point I meant to make was that assembly language in the text form that we would use is not part of the

Yes, very true! And more accurate than what I wrote. The point I meant to make was that assembly language in the text form that we would use is not part of the compilation process. But I oversimplified my description rather badly. Interestingly, Go also has a -d=ssa/all switch that outputs not just an assembly representation of the final code, but also the results of each optimization pass. Here is a discussion I had with ChatGPT about this: https://chatgpt.com/share/6859aea5-df1c-8012-be70-f2361060fb5b https://chatgpt.com/share/6859aea5-df1c-8012-be70-f2361060fb...