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Is Assembly Still Relevant To Most Linux Software?

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Steve McIntyre and the Linaro Enterprise Group recently analyzed Ubuntu and Fedora software packages to see what software was still relying upon hand-written Assembly code. This was done to see how much real Assembly is being used, to see what the code was used for, and whether it was worth porting to 64-bit ARM / AArch64 / ARMv8...

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JaseP ·
I love reading the comments to Phoronix articles, and this one is no exception. When I was a kid I started learning 6502/6510 assembly for programming on my C64,... but didn't get very far. A shame,... I'd be a Comp. Sci. star now, if I had... But tightly coded & debugged assembly code will always outperform compiled code. Besides, the compilers themselves must have at least SOME assembly components... Anyway, I love hearing from assembly coders about their craft...

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