More thanks to Matt Godbolt for today's episode of #AdventOfCompilerOptimisations, where the only horrors are in the tortured C code that gets turned into beautiful elegant assembler. The golden moment was the footnote alerting me to the existence of #CompilerExplorer's "optimisation pipeline explorer".

https://xania.org/202512/03-more-adding-integers

You can't fool the optimiser — Matt Godbolt’s blog

Pattern recognition can see through obfuscated code to find the right instruction