Hmm, ~30 years ago the compilers that I was using were generating generally fine assembly/machine code. Some of the other tooling was more troublesome: cross p

Hmm, ~30 years ago the compilers that I was using were generating generally fine assembly/machine code. Some of the other tooling was more troublesome: cross platform high performance numerically stable code and C++ static template deduplication paid for a lot of beers around then, and I needed them.