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Optimizing compilers can make this quite a bit harder by the way, extra passes that do all kinds of reshuffling to get rid of instructions, to combine them and to move things from memory into registers.

You can usually tell compilers to output assembly code, doing that for a program that you wrote yourself is a good exercise to see how your high level code translates into lower level code. And with optimization off all you see is the code generator's output.