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Subject: Re: Assembly in VC6.0 – an (bad) experience!

Author: James Swafford

Date: 06:57:54 03/15/01

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On March 15, 2001 at 02:58:48, José Carlos wrote:

>
>  I haven't written assembler pieces in my program, so I cannot say about how
>much can assembler speed up the program, but I think you should feel happy if
>the compiler does so good job that you don't need to write assembler code,
>because this way, you have a more portable and understandable (easy to modify)
>code. Don't you think?

While that's true, on some level I'm a little disappointed.  Assembly
programming is almost an art unto itself;  now it seems the advantage
of using assembly may be dwindling.


>
>  José C.



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