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Offline Zac67

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Re: Assembly future
« on: October 27, 2011, 09:36:26 PM »
For development on RISC assembly is hardly usable - manual optimization may be better than a compiler's but you'll be spending eternities on everything but small code fragments. Everything CISC is dead.
 

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Re: Assembly future
« Reply #1 on: October 28, 2011, 07:37:28 AM »
Quote from: matthey;665432
x86 too?


Yes, I was referring to the cores. x86 has been nothing but a frontend to RISC cores for 15 years.