> I'm not implying that it's not impressive That part was about me :-). > I'm implying that compilers still aren't magic wands, Agreed. > you should still o

> I'm not implying that it's not impressive That part was about me :-). > I'm implying that compilers still aren't magic wands, Agreed. > you should still optimize the algorithms (to a reasonable degree). Just let the compiler do the microptimizations (all this register allocation golf, instruction reordering, caching, the discussed division trick, etc.). Agreed.