Instead of writing a traditional 6502/8501/Z80/etc. backend for general-purpose IRs like LLVM, I wonder whether these platforms are constrained enough that a superoptimizer could generate more optimal code in reasonable time
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Back when I was programming assembly just getting the assembly _source_ to fit in the ~32K we could use was often a challenge. Nowadays: no excuse.
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I think you could with some. ORCA/M probably did? It was a beast.
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Where did the 32K source limit come from then?
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