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I think people who were using computers in the 1980s have their baseline for speed as Assembly and anyone from the 1990s on have C as their baseline of speed.
by baldfat 11y ago
I think people who were using computers in the 1980s have their baseline for speed as Assembly and anyone from the 1990s on have C as their baseline of speed.
Man I hated reading or figuring out other's Assembly code and Turbo Pascal was a dream in comparison (And Fortran also)
- vidarh 11y agoC compilers tended to be atrocious back then. I remember "porting" some code from C to assembler by compiling it, disassembling it, and then patiently going through several thousands lines of asm output and adding labels etc. as well as deleting on average every second instruction or so, because the compiler was so bad at optimizing register usage. Seeing disassembled code like that kept me from learning C for years...