Last time I wrote assembly, and it was a long while ago, it was way faster. But let's be honest, 95% of it was doing manual buffering on top of OS api's rather

Last time I wrote assembly, and it was a long while ago, it was way faster. But let's be honest, 95% of it was doing manual buffering on top of OS api's rather than use C stdlib. And the other 5% were by skipping itoa calls, by doing arithmetic directly on the string representation. I think this is why assembler can be faster many times. Not because I'm better than a compiler. But because the structure of the language nudges you into faster approaches.