Re: usage of assembly


david s:
well i am a computer science student so i am just starting, but it
still seems to me MUCH less time consuming to write in java or c. i
mean 1 instruction in java could take 5-10 instructions (or more) in
asm. i understand that asm runs quicker, and gives the programmer more
power, but its hard for me to belivce that even the experienced asm
coder can write equally as fast as a java or c coder. i guess
experience will tell, the only thing is that i wanted to know how much
effort i should put into asm now.

ASM is more important to understand than to write in directly. I
personally use assembly in job quite a lot, because we do some binary-
level manipulation of program. of course this is possible only in

But overally, ASM is usually used only for as small parts as possible,
like described before. Not because it is extra hard to write (it is
not), but because it is harder to maintain and unportable. That is
REAL problem with writing in assembly.

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