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In reality, there are a lot of situations where being able to toss some assembly together is vital.. Consoles would be one thing, and I personally use it in luaray, but as previously stated, "normal" assembly has little payoff, nowadays it's almost entirely simd.
Ketmar Dark wrote:
On Fri, 27 Jul 2007 11:20:59 +0200 Alen Ladavac <alenl-ml@croteam.com> wrote:Ketmar wrote:programmer *must* know such things as assemble language, bit arithmetic, stacks, etc. others can do something that might be call "programs" but they aren't programmers.You know what they say... "Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute." That's how I'd define a good programmer. Knowing assembly is a good servant, but a bad master, in this context."comments are for beginners!" (c) Pascal aka Niclas Beizert // Cubic Team. %-) one of the best coders in asm %-)