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Do you assemble your own machine code as well or do you trust that someone else has taken care of the gritty details of the assembler so that you can work at a
by freyrs3 12y ago
Do you assemble your own machine code as well or do you trust that someone else has taken care of the gritty details of the assembler so that you can work at a level of abstraction higher than that?
- bronson 12y agoAssembling a program into machine language is simple enough that it's easy to trust someone else to get it right. I imagine it depends on the difficulty of the problem being outsourced.
- SoftwareMaven 12y agoHave you seen what optimizing compilers do? I'd hardly call that simple!
- bronson 12y agoThought it was clear the OP was talking about assembly? Which, thanks to pipeline stalls and out-of-order execution is no walk in the park these days, but it's not TOO bad.