Probably people at some point were making same arguments about ASM and C. How ma...

IshKebab · 2025-10-09T17:50:14 1760032214

I doubt it. C is well within 2x of what you can achieve with hand written assembly in almost every case.

Furthermore writing large programs in pure assembly is not really feasible, but writing large programs in C++, Go, Rust, Java, C#, Typescript, etc. is totally feasible.

pjmlp · 2025-10-09T18:09:03 1760033343

1980's and 1990's game development says hi.

C compilers weren't up to stuff, that is why books like those from Michael Abrash do exist.

shcheklein · 2025-10-09T18:14:09 1760033649

Yep, exactly, It takes time to close the gap so that more and more teams taking that tradeoff

theLiminator · 2025-10-09T18:25:27 1760034327

> I doubt it. C is well within 2x of what you can achieve with hand written assembly in almost every case.

Depends what you mean, if you preclude using targeted ASM in your C I think some hot loops can be much slower than 2x.

Of course programs globally written in assembly largely don't make sense.