On Fri, Mar 10, 2017 at 11:00 AM, Linus Torvalds <torva...@linux-foundation.org> wrote: > On Thu, Mar 9, 2017 at 11:20 PM, Ingo Molnar <mi...@kernel.org> wrote: >> >> Joking aside, I'll bite: while in the kernel we try to avoid ever actually >> _writing_ new assembly code > > .. also, when we do, I think we should care about it. > > If you write asm, and the end result is noticeably worse than what > your average compiler would generate, exactly why are you writing it > in asm in the first place? > > So I think people should aim to avoid asm. Andy certainly knows that, > and I loved his "rewrite a lot of the low-level system call code" > patches. > > But the corollary to that is that if you _do_ write assembler, please > have some pride in the code, and don't half-arse it. >
Geez, I didn't expect anyone to take my silly comment remotely seriously :) And I do like Steven's patches. --Andy, who just looked at binutils source to figure out WTF "nobits" meant. Take that, asm!
