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Decompilers don't "deoptimize" programs. Compilation is a very lossy process (reused variables, moving variables to other registers, etc.). The best you'll get is some C code that, when compiled, would do the same thing as the original assembly (but probably slower). Interesting idea, nonetheless.


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