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Demonstrating how some languages and some compilers are bad at tasks such as writing constant-time crypto routines is fine. Concluding that all compilers and non-asm languages are bad is a non sequitur. Just because you don't want non-branching code to change into branching code doesn't mean you should have to do register allocation by hand. Write simple domain-specific compilers and languages people.



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