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1. Dianora (Diane Bruce) (dianora@ottawa.place)'s status on Saturday, 09-Mar-2024 12:46:53 UTC Dianora (Diane Bruce)

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   • AlgoCompSynth by znmeb

   @AlgoCompSynth @mos_8502 @jacqueline Resident elder here. I learned macro-11 as in PDP-11 macro assembler but the PDP-11 was wonderful to code. Sorry for the intrusion.

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   • AlgoCompSynth by znmeb (algocompsynth@social.toplap.org)'s status on Saturday, 09-Mar-2024 12:46:55 UTC AlgoCompSynth by znmeb

     • jacqueline

     @mos_8502 @jacqueline With RISC architectures I don't think assembly is that much faster than C - the architectures are designed to profiles of highly-used C code. 😉

     But for CISC or LIW or VLIW or SIMD/SIMT, yeah, compilers are going to outperform humans on most code generation tasks, and when you factor in rework on assembly code bugs that a compiler would catch, it's no contest.

     But macro assembly programming is *fun* - I learned programming in macro assembly and I'm still doing it to this day on a Raspberry Pi Pico. If one wants to go down that rabbit hole, I highly recommend Stephen Smith's Apress books on the subject.