Besides that, some people just like to program in assembly. Morse code, bows and arrows, and steam engines are all archaic, but there are still people who enjoy mastering them anyway.

When it isn’t, you can actually turn on profiling. If you are running GCC under Linux, for example, you can use the -pg option to have GCC add profiling instrumentation to your code automatically.

When the CPU sees a number, for example 0x0120 or 288, it knows that this means “put 1 in register 0.” It is the same on the Cortex-A72, on the Qualcom Kryo, on the Apple A9 processor, and so on.

Even converting a small function of a few assembly instructions in this manner can be a complicated process. But individual N64 functions can run into the thousands of instructions, and a single ...

Assembly was also in the news recently when the "Original Apollo 11 Guidance Computer (AGC) source code for the command and lunar modules" -- written in assembly -- was posted to GitHub. While ...

When the CPU sees a number, for example 0x0120 or 288, it knows that this means “put 1 in register 0.” It is the same on the Cortex-A72, on the Qualcom Kryo, on the Apple A9 processor, and so on.