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I am not disagreeing with you, but the width of “tokens” we parse does matter — it’s much harder to spot a typo in a long word than in a short one, and one tends to read assembly by pattern matching on the instruction word, so I believe better, but still relatively short names would be the optimum.

(E.g. jump_if_greater would not be that good, jge is too short and unless you actually know what it is, it is hard to decipher, jmp_ge is not a bad compromise)



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