Re: NASM dead?

On 26 Jun 2006 12:22:24 -0700, "randyhyde@xxxxxxxxxxxxx"
<spamtrap@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

The thing that I see killing MASM is the fact that many hard-core
assembly x86 programmers are switching from Windows to Linux, meaning
that they have to switch to a different assembler (usually NASM or
FASM). I really suspect that Microsoft's direction with Vista (trusted
computing, JIT compilation, and no assembly) is probably going to push
more assembly programmers away from Windows and may be the ultimate
cause of MASM's "death" (or, at least, the thing the breaks its
inertia).


Randy, is Vista really going to make it difficult for asm programmer
to write for it? The inability of producing binary code is a big
mistake on microsoft side since optimization would jump through the
window.



Like MASM, NASM has achieved critical mass and has considerable
momentum. It will live for quite some time even if another line of code
is written inside the compiler.
Cheers,
Randy Hyde


John
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