Great intro to the insanity that is my job. > Even though no one writes shaders in assembly directly nowadays I heard that back over 20 years ago in college.

Great intro to the insanity that is my job. > Even though no one writes shaders in assembly directly nowadays I heard that back over 20 years ago in college. It wasn't true then and it is still not true. It's becoming less common, though. Sometimes people don't even have an assembler and have to resort to writing machine code directly, in binary. Incidentally, I can't express with words the admiration that I have for the experts in performance tuning that I've met over the years, especially at NVidia. These folks live and breathe GPU architecture to a degree that I will never achieve.