Hmm. Most "super-high-performance" projects I've seen find they can get more bang for the buck by switching to a different microarchitecture (FPGA etc) or explo

Hmm. Most "super-high-performance" projects I've seen find they can get more bang for the buck by switching to a different microarchitecture (FPGA etc) or exploiting parallelism (buy ten computers), not so much optimizing the machine code.