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Keep reordering those instructions, one pipeline is busy!!!
After reading SICP, you will achieve Satori. Let's compare how you think before and after with a simple example problem: factorial of 10.
Before SICP: OMG lots of expensive instructions. Let's write an iterative version which is faster. We need 32 bit integers. Consider paralel multiplication using SIMD? Let's set the counter from 10 so upon decreasing we have the NZ flag set and we save a comparison! Lol this one is going to rock. 30 minutes later, you obtain the result.
After SICP: Factorial of 10: folding/reducing * for 2..10. It is equal to x.
Implementation is not important. You don't need to implement it. You are perfectly satisfied with the procedure running in your mind and obtaining a result which you will call x and operate with it as necessary. You have trascended the mortal concrete world and can visualize every part of the process in your mind in a fraction of a second. In fact, you already visualized it before you were asked the question. You already visualized every possible process. You sit, relax and meditate on the process which created the Universe.