ASM makes sense when the time spent in a specific routine exceeds the time it takes to write the ASM, which makes a lot of sense for Blas, less so for other HPC

ASM makes sense when the time spent in a specific routine exceeds the time it takes to write the ASM, which makes a lot of sense for Blas, less so for other HPC yet speculative or less fundamental projects. Cvodes for instance doesn’t need to be written in ASM, and I think Julia makes a strong case that it could have been written in Julia.