Calibrating your fear of big bad optimizing compilers

There's a link to a previous article hidden in a single word of the second paragraph: "As noted earlier [...]"

Later it launches into "A key point from the first article" and I go: Huh? Which first article? Maybe I can't read.

For those who know nothing about LKMM (like me) this is a pretty tough read. The introduction could have been gentler, or at least the link to the previous article should be much more prominent, i.e. a "This article is based on so-and-so and the reader is urged to read it first"-style disclaimer.