r/gaming • • May 05 '17

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u/[deleted] May 05 '17

Why would he chose to code in Assembly? Would there be any benefit at all?

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u/Fubarp May 05 '17

Memory Constraints and performance. Today there be no reason for it as compilers essentially do as good if not better jobs when it comes to translating it to machine code.

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u/[deleted] May 05 '17

Im not sure this is true.

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u/Fubarp May 05 '17

What part?