On 2/18/2011 8:56 AM, Invisible wrote:
>>> 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.
>

Oh, right ... I forgot about that.

> ...which leads us back to my "there are *reasons* why nobody uses
> assembler any more". ;-)

Well, if you don't want to write portable code... then go for it.

-- 
~Mike

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