« on: October 27, 2011, 11:16:04 PM »
Understanding any assembly (even 68k) is a good thing though as it makes it much easier to pick up some other (more relevant) assembly code. The basic concepts are very similar. For example I have no difficulty in using IDA Pro to read some x86 code, even though I probably couldn't write single app using x86 asm.
Knowing assembler is also good, even if you never actually use it, because it gets you to think about what's happening below the HLL statement level. That understanding is a valuable tool even if you never so much as use assembler for optimization.

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