26 Mar
2005
26 Mar
'05
1:23 a.m.
There is an eleven-billion-dollar industry that uses
assembly in
every single one of its products, but mentioning it on this list is
most likely a cardinal sin so I won't mention it (no, it's not porn).
No, porn is probably *well* over $11G. (Assuming you mean per year.)
I recently played all the way through Ratchet & Clank: Going Commando,
and the making-of video that you can watch when you've beat the game
has, among other things, someone saying that their game engine contains
some large number of lines of assembler. I don't remember the number,
but it was large - 100K, 1M, 10M, something like that. I'm not sure
whether to be impressed that they wrote something that big in assembly
and made it that solid (I've found *one* bug in the game, and it's a
level design bug, not a code bug), or horrified that they wrote the
whole thing, rather than just the hotspots, in assembly. Perhaps both.
Of course, I doubt that your 11-gigabuck industry is PS2 games, nor
evey console games - and I would guess that assembly isn't in "every
one" of either, though probably close to.
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