>> This only matters if you're interested in performance.
>
> Why else would you use assembly?
Perhaps because you need to perform specific hardware-level operations
that C doesn't support. (E.g., selecting a different processor mode or
something.) There's usually a few bits of the OS written in assembly
because they do very low-level stuff.
> There are plenty of languages that allow better maintainability.
>
> Assembly isn't portable by its very nature ;)
...which leads us back to my "there are *reasons* why nobody uses
assembler any more". ;-)
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