25 Mar
2005
25 Mar
'05
10:31 p.m.
Eric Smith wrote:
Jim wrote:
The point is that humans understanding low-level machine code is and always
will be around. Saying that assembly is "dead" or "near death" is
just
short-sighted. I know several people other than myself in professional
programming positions who use assembly all the time for critical inner loops
where the compiler either doesn't optimize correctly, or doesn't know how
because the program drives a new piece of hardware.
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I fully disagree; compilers output assembly. As
long as there are
compilers, there will be assembly.
Some compilers output assembly. But many output only machine code,
which is NOT the same thing.