Assembly or ....

[Sean Fagan]

In article <1961 at crete.cs.glasgow.ac.uk> orr at cs.glasgow.ac.uk (Fraser Orr) writes:
>Do you think it is important to understand how transistors work as well?
>The semantic level of most mircoprocessors is high enough that
>learning a HLL is pretty much sufficient these days (compare 68000 asm
>to C for example.)

However, not all micros use a 68k.  Compare 8086 asm to C.  Or 88k asm to C.
Or SPARC asm to C.  It is, IMHO, a good idea to learn assembly, or at least
enough to understand the concepts.  This can help people do the ever
unpopular "microoptimizations," and also to understand why the program may
run so slowly.  It also helps when you need to break into adb and find out
why the blasted program is dereferencing through location 12 8-).

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