clear and idiomatic assembly? I don't write assembly code, but when I did. It was for performance reasons, there was no such thing as clear and idiomatic.

clear and idiomatic assembly? I don't write assembly code, but when I did. It was for performance reasons, there was no such thing as clear and idiomatic. I needed performance and every spare cycle I could get, and that meant taking advantage of whatever the cpu offered, some obscure things that made no sense, but made the program run faster. Beautiful assembly code to me and my mates was one that made the program faster, as a program, the beauty was in how it was illogical at first sight but made sense when you read into it.