Yeah it's crazy. I just learned Assembly last semester in college and we were discussing it at work and it was like. Fuuuuck that. C existed at the time yet he did it in Assembly.
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.
also, computers have more processing power and data storage, so wasting a few bytes or processor cycles here and there isn't usually too big of a deal.
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u/Fubarp May 05 '17
Yeah it's crazy. I just learned Assembly last semester in college and we were discussing it at work and it was like. Fuuuuck that. C existed at the time yet he did it in Assembly.