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Out of curiosity, who does assembly language programming these days? Back in the 90s the compilers had learned all our best tricks. Now with multiple instructio
by taylodl 2y ago
Out of curiosity, who does assembly language programming these days? Back in the 90s the compilers had learned all our best tricks. Now with multiple instruction pipelines and out-of-order instruction processing and registers to be managed, can humans still write better optimized assembly than a compiler? Is the juice worth that squeeze?
I can see people still learning assembly in a pedagogical setting, but not in a production setting. I'd be interested to hear otherwise.
- indrora 2y agoAssembly is still relatively popular in the spaces of very low level Operating System work, exploit engineering, and embedded systems where you need cycle-accurate timing.
- gjadi 2y agoffmepg is famous for using asm. For exemple : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42041301 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42041301