Need a conditional? Time to jump around.
I wrote a web server that scales to over 1 million requests per second, and I found out it's much more maintainable, scalable and environmentally friendly for our company.
Do you happen to know where (what source) you got that from? I'm genuinely curious, as to my knowledge, compilers are generally still easily fooled by things that causes them unable to vectorize code or factor out conditional jumps.
To give an example here, see Mike Actons' talk below (from about 43:10 onwards) in which he describes the compiler failures.
Nit: assembly is a language. The phrase you are looking for is probably "structured programming".