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In some scenarios, it might. You'd hope not these days, because the compiler can see more than you, and it can take a lot of effort to do this kind of analysis.

However maybe there are areas you can still find, and I would expect there to be at least some niche applications for writing code more efficiently with ASM.

I've heard it's still helpful to reduce code size, if you have space limitations.




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