It’s about code optimization and efficiency. Most assembly code these days just relies on compilers for optimization as hand optimizing is extremely time-consuming work.
AOCapitulator@hexbear.net 2 weeks ago
Hand written is impressive? I thought all code was hand written until AI
BrikoX@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
propter_hog@hexbear.net 2 weeks ago
To add to this, it’s also very easy and very likely to write assembly that has zero speedup or even significant slowdown versus what the compiler will write.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Well these days hardly anyone bothers with assembly
dev_null@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
It’s handwritten assembly as opposed to bytecode generated by a compiler, from handwritten higher level language.