It's not a question of difficulty. It's not a question of skill. The issue is belief. Once you stop believing that assembly is just some weird hack is the momen

It's not a question of difficulty. It's not a question of skill. The issue is belief. Once you stop believing that assembly is just some weird hack is the moment it gets easy. In my experience when it comes to simple functions, plain code normally processes data at 400mbps and if you use the weird hacks it goes 40gbps which is two orders of a magnitude. With algorithms it gets even better when you can make things exponentially faster. Even something as constrained as old i8086 is too easy when we believe that nothing is beyond our ingenuity. People have built things like fighter jets using those chips and sent humans to the moon with less.