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[Luis Antoniosi (CoCoDemus)]

If everybody stop bothering with ASM who will make the compilers ???

Luis Felipe Antoniosi



On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 12:19 PM, Steven Hirsch <snhirsch at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 8 Jan 2015, Allen Huffman wrote:
>
>  Steve Gipson at GRC.com (the guy who coined the term spyware and does the
>> excellent Security Now podcast) is the only modern author I know that still
>> writes all his PC stuff in assembly... Thus, they will be like 40K instead
>> of 50GB. Amazing.
>>
>
> If you are optimizing for _size_, then I can sort of see it.  However, it
> still begs the question of why bother in this day and age of huge memory
> and disk storage capabilities?
>
> All that said, I enjoy assembly coding immensely.  I'm currently helping
> out on a project that uses the PRU units on a BeagleBone Black SBC to code
> and decode hard drive MFM data.  The PRUs have no cache, interrupt handling
> or a stack - 100% deterministic timing!  Most serious applications require
> cycle-counting, so ASM is the only way to go here. Took a while to get used
> to the architecture, but it's really very cool. I cannot believe how much
> sophistication is squeezed into the TI ARM-8 variant used on the BBB.
>
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