I remember the first talk that John Mashey gave about the MIPS R2000 
in the early 80's, and how proud he was about the assembler doing 
instruction reordering, so that assembly language programmers didn't 
have to worry too much about instruction scheduling and could just 
"write straight code in the usual way."

Can't the GNU MIPS assembler (or whatever) be trusted?

	curious,

	Erik <fair@clock.org>