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Yes, but what we're talking about is source code here. In this case, it's more correct to say of a good HLL that "one line of source code == several lines of object code", which is to say that that one line of HLL source would have required several lines of assembly source. You're not seriously contending that assembly source is generally smaller than good C source, are you? That seemed to be implied in the comment under discussion. Obviously, good assembler code will almost always produce shorter obj code than equivalent C source.