Re: High Level Language vs Assembly

Walter Banks <walter@bytecraft.com>
25 Feb 2001 10:53:04 -0500

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From: Walter Banks <walter@bytecraft.com>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 25 Feb 2001 10:53:04 -0500
Organization: Compilers Central
References: 01-02-094 01-02-101
Keywords: assembler, performance
Posted-Date: 25 Feb 2001 10:53:04 EST

Jim Granville wrote:
>
> francis.doyle@donovandata.com wrote:
> > He stated that a human assembly language writer
> > was no longer able to compete with these compilers
>
> He is largely correct: At the most detailed, hand ASM can lead, but it
> is an unsustainable effort across a whole project, and more commonly
> is counter productive.


Most of Jim's examples illustrate the biggest advantage of compiled
code over hand Assembly. The compiler gets to select an implimentation
strategy this time and when the code changes it gets to change the
stradegy. The assembly language programmer is faced with modifying
existing code.


Walter Banks


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