Agreed, tools for assembly on the Atmel chip are available and mature.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DAu2eSyEVKsA (using the Arduino IDE and
inline assembly, shows half the flash space for a blinky)

Also worth paying attention to the linker map file, to find out what
is brought in.

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