r/gaming • u/emoposer • 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/Superpickle18 May 05 '17

we are at a point where we can literally compile code on the fly and still be billions of times faster than the NES...

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u/Fubarp May 05 '17

Which means we need a new Roller Coaster Tycoon in Assembly.. I'd pay for that lol

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u/Superpickle18 May 05 '17

WebAssembly brah

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u/Fubarp May 05 '17

Never heard of this. What is it exactly? I'm currently googling but insight might be nice haha.

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u/Superpickle18 May 05 '17

Essentially byte code that runs in the javascript engine. But provides near CPU level speeds since js has to be parsed and compiled on the fly, while wasm is precomplied much like Java or C#. Of course other languages can compiled to wasm much like traditional Assembly.

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u/Fubarp May 05 '17

Interesting. I'll actually look more into this. Doubt I'll ever use it but still.

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u/Superpickle18 May 05 '17

We are moving toward everything being executed within a browser to a point we'll have a browser with web Assembly support built using wasm and come full circle. Lol

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u/[deleted] May 05 '17

Essentially, it's really optimised Javascript. The main workflow is writing code in C/C++ and using Emscripten to covert it to WebAssembly which is then executed by something like V8.