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Comment by elcapitan | Hacker News Reader

tldr: compiler replaces /2 with a shift.

Which makes it sound like the author shouldn't have been trying to hand assemble for speed. Or maybe treat it as a learning exercise.

  Or maybe treat it as a learning exercise.

Is there any other reason to complete a Project Euler question?

i think it was a learning exercise. It's not like there's any productive use for testing the collatz conjecture.

Which is a common knowledge substitution that the OP overlooked.