22 Aug
2001
22 Aug
'01
1:51 p.m.
It was thus said that the Great Iggy Drougge once stated:
XenoSoft skrev:
Assembly is still used, just very rarely, and usually for the lowest
levels of the operating system. I just checked Linux 2.0.39 (which I run on
all my servers) and each architecture branch has several assembly langauge
files---mostly for configuring the CPU (on boot) and maybe context switching
and memory copying routines).
For small segments of code, an excellent assembly language programmer,
familiar with the problem, can still beat a compiler, but over a longer
range of code, or for most programmers, the compiler can still do a better
job.
-spc (But you get the most gains through algorithmic optimizations ...)
You are familiar with how many computers there are
with Intel 80x86 family
processors, and you are familiar with the software that is being run.
Are you saying that there ISN'T a need to imporove the quality of that
software?
I've been both told and taught that assembly is not used anymore on the Intel
platform, at least not Intel-based computers, and that modern compilers do
the job much better anyway.