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> If modern compilers were as inefficient and horrid as html design tools were a lot of people would code directly in ASM.

Well, compilers may be good for languages such as C++. But for most languages such as Python and Ruby, the code executed is just plain terrible compared to ASM. I don't see anyone writing Ruby code and complaining about that waste, though...



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