Comment Re:Assembler is High Performance (Score 1) 295
This is SLASHDOT! Agreement is futile!
Actually you were the closest to my thoughts as I read down the thread. The right way is code AND optimize with the least amount of resources, that is if you are paying programmers to do a job. There are trade off in most choices including maintenance and the cost of keeping brains who know how your system is coded which is a lot higher for keeping asm updated.
Unless I can find a expressive asm routine or a real need to cut processor cycles C is preferred IMHO. I have coded and debugged at "switch panels" we have higher level languages is because of the labor involved with direct machine interaction.
And not enough people or companies do it the right way, they just pay and waste programming brains, and because of this program language wars will just go on and on. Pointless because the method of code,test, measure and optimize is the economic/engineers way to work.