>It's not really possible to write hand-coded assembler that's faster anymore. That is wrong. Just because you didn’t succeed in writing faster code in one cas

>It's not really possible to write hand-coded assembler that's faster anymore. That is wrong. Just because you didn’t succeed in writing faster code in one case, doesn’t mean it’s impossible. See e.g. [1] on why the Lua vm is written in assembly. It’s from 2011 but not much has changed in the meantime. [1] http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2011-02/msg00742.html http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2011-02/msg00742.html