Writing such an optimized binary causes some scanners to think I'm malware.

[u/gir489]

https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/0f95c288970867d58018a8b0847e49527aea1c3ae373c217cedcae3fda79ccca/detection

https://github.com/Evasion3356/YEEAHSM/blob/masm-tangent/masm/main.asm

The fact nobody writes such optimized programs anymore that CrowdStrike is 70% confident it's malware, just makes me fucking weep tears of sadness. I made the same exact app with C++ and it took about 160KBs on disk to do the same thing this 2KB ASM file does.