Why C++ compiles slowly

[dsimcha]

== Quote from Walter Bright (newshound2 at digitalmars.com)'s article
> Adam Ruppe wrote:
> > The Microsoft assembler used to have a whole bunch of weird macro
> > capabilities and strange syntax. I hated it.
> What I did when faced with such code is assemble it, *disassemble* the output,
> and paste the output back in the source code and work from that.

How did you do this?  Don't you lose some important stuff like label names in the
translation?  Instead of LSomeLabelName you get some raw, inscrutable hexadecimal
number in your jump instructions.