take: C's speed is completely overrated (and the same is true of Rust)
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Replying to @pasiphae_goals
Assembly has less undefined behavior, and, when written by competent programmers, is faster. C is for quiche eaters.
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Replying to @volatile_void @pasiphae_goals
Asm isn't maintainable or portable though.
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Certainly the latter is inherent, but what if the former was simply because most assemblers don't aid the programmer enough?
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To do that it needs to go way beyond being an assembler. Ability to write HL code that collapses to something small & efficient is important.
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Replying to @RichFelker @cr1901 and
For example it's often preferable to write just loop body and not loop structure itself in inline asm - loop structure is just cruft.
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And static register assignment makes it unmaintainable.
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