Performance is not everything

Anders F Björklund afb at algonet.se
Fri Aug 17 13:32:35 PDT 2007


BCS wrote:

>>> Ohhh Yahhh! Why don't more people think like that?
>>>
>> Maybe they are thinking "because my computer is fast enough"
> 
> Oh well. I wish more people would notice the other advantages of 
> learning ASM (even if you never use it again).

These days, getting people to learn C is probably as close to the
machine (or assembler / machine code) as you can hope for... :-)

I know that besides debugging and disassembling, I haven't used it
myself for years - but it does indeed help a lot for those tasks.

--anders



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