Assembly or ....

[Eric Koldinger]

In article <1961 at crete.cs.glasgow.ac.uk> orr at cs.glasgow.ac.uk (Fraser Orr) writes:
>I don't agree that there is ever any necessity to code in assembler. We
>have languages that produce code just as good as hand crafted assembler
>(such as C), so why not use them for this sort of thing.

Ah, but wouldn't that be nice.  Optimizing compilers that could generate
code as good as we can generate by hand in all cases.  Let me know when
someone writes one.

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