quote:Original post by Elite19
Wow, thanks Magmai. That helped heaps. I am finding assembly very interesting. One thing i''m wondering about though is, do many people out there use it? I mean, it seems like the fastest code you can write is asm other than "machine code" itself. Is it still usefull knowledge to have and wil computers in the future make the asm of today obselete?
If I remember correctly, if it hasn''t been stated before, it is given a 1-1 conversion rate between ASM and machine code, meaning that for every line of Assembly code, that creates one line of machine, while high level languages like C++, VB, Java, etc.. are 1-many conversions, meaning it takes many lines of machine code to actually execute what is represented by 1 line of that code. I don''t think ASM will become obsolete completely because someone has to be programming in it at some point, now it is just system coders, and game programmers that are looking for an added boost in performance with the libraries that they are using. Soon, game devs will probably not use it much, if at all, and then it will only be the systems guys, and I am fairly sure that embedded technologies, would still use a fair amount of ASM, since those machines aren''t quite as powerful as the desktop and laptops that we use today.
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