From: MikkelFJ <mikkelfj-anti-spam@...>
Date: 2002-11-22T07:36:18+09:00
Subject: Re: The ultimate Application


"Phil Tomson" <ptkwt@shell1.aracnet.com> wrote in message
news:arj9m7018of@enews1.newsguy.com...

> Hey, wait, assembler is even faster than C!  Let's implement our chess
> programs in assembler.  Surely you have shown us a new path to
> enlightenment and for this we thank you.

Actually, a good macroassembler can be pretty productive. It's really too
bad there are so few good low-level tools left. You get closures and what
not pretty easily and its dynamically typed. I'm not even kidding - half the
time spent in C is second guessing what assembly language will come out the
other end. It's just that assembler isn't all that portable. And of course -
today an assembler would have to help you optimizing the processor pipeline
by suggesting instruction reordering etc.

Mikkel