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- From: fish@csc.liv.ac.uk (S.E. Morris)
- Subject: Re: AB3D II beats Quake....
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- Date: Fri, 29 Mar 1996 11:13:37 GMT
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- In article <729.6658T1040T1373@sn.no>,
- tbk@sn.no (Thore Bjerklund Karlsen) writes:
- >
- >>Assembly language is useful on the Amiga for ONE reason only. The Amiga is
- >>deathly slow. I don't think anybody understands the paradigm shift (look it
- >>up) that occurs when using a 120+Mhz processor. Simply, C code is more than
- >>fast enough to do anything you could possibly achieve with tight assembler on
- >>even an
- >>040.
- >
- >I don't want to start a new asm vs. C thread, this has been discussed
- >to death already - but:
- >
- >Wake up, please.
- >
- Sorry, be he's right. Increasingly the speed differences between
- C and Asm are closing. This is due to a number of factors, including
- better compiler technology.
-
- The future generation of CPUs will be so complex that no Assembler
- programmer could ever hope to create code as efficient as a compiler.
- It would simply not be possible!
-
- This, if nothing else, should be enough for all you Asm programmers
- to ditch using Assembler for anything other than educational/research
- purposes. For all serious code you should now be looking at writing
- entirely in a high level language.
-
- Although Assembler still has it's place in a small way - it's days
- are numbered. So best to build up your C/C++/E/whatever skills now
- before you find you have to run hard to catch up.
-
- -FISH- ><>
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