For Super Mario 64, Nintendo compiled its source code without any fancy compiler options, meaning the decompiled assembly language is simpler to convert back to C code.

The AlphaDev system developed x86 assembly algorithms that treated the latency of the code as a score and tried to minimize that score while ensuring that the code ran to completion without errors.

Source code that is written into the body of a program. It may refer to code written in the same language or another. For example, assembly language instructions can be embedded within a C program ...