On 13/01/10 07:37, Per Jessen wrote:
[...] No myth at all. Perhaps you haven't met many very good assembler programmers? It's not really a topic I have a desire to debate (I know from experience that I am right).
I am (at least with one leg) in the HPC software development business and I say your point of view is somewhat biased. Nowadays there's hardly any reason for writing assembler code directly. There are, of course, a few occasions where you are right and hand-optimized assembler code will outperform code generated by any compiler. But that's not a statement you can apply globally. Of course if you write bad C/Fortran/C++ or whatever code and you hope for the compiler to come up with some magic to create an ultra-fast assembler out of it, then you're wrong. I would like to see the C code you used as baseline reference and information about the compiler and access to your hand-optimized code to actually have a look at it myself. Without showing evidence, you just make empty statements. Thomas -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-programming+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-programming+help@opensuse.org