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> why are people writing this stuff in C. It's so slow and you don't have as much control on memory. Write it in Assembly. did anyone ever actually say this?
by 2bitencryption 9y ago
> why are people writing this stuff in C. It's so slow and you don't have as much control on memory. Write it in Assembly.
did anyone ever actually say this?
> why are people writing this stuff in Python. It's so slow and you don't have as much control on memory. Write it in Java.
this one is odd to me considering Python came first...
- sametmax 9y ago> did anyone ever actually say this? Wordperfect is famous for failing because they sticked to assembly while the competition moved to C. > this one is odd to me considering Python came first... It is indeed. But date of creation has no importance in this. Java became popular first, and is faster and consume less memory than Python. I'm a Python dev now, and I when I picked up the language more than a decade ago, people where looking at me like I was crazy.
- wccrawford 9y agoGood lord, yes. They only recently stopped saying it in GameDev circles.
- lerpa 9y ago>> why are people writing this stuff in C. It's so slow and you don't have as much control on memory. Write it in Assembly. >did anyone ever actually say this? Yes, in the 8bit era.
- acdha 9y agoThat was a common refrain through the 90s and early 2000s – compilers, and especially open-source ones, have improved significantly since then but at the time it was relatively common for someone to replace a hotspot with inline assembly for a significant boost.