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<CAHm_n2=bqdhewx5mvmbt3weqq0dfwewwf_w7m4j46oatpyf...@mail.gmail.com>,
on 04/13/2012
at 09:23 AM, Kirk Wolf <k...@dovetail.com> said:
>With the explosion of new instructions, at what point does writing
>hand-written assembler code become less and less practical?
I would have thought that it was the other way around; with the
explosion of specialized instructions, assembler code that explots
them is more high level than what we were writing a few decades ago.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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