Re:i doubt it... (Score 0)

Well, after reading a lot of this discussion, I've realized that a lot of you are wrong and a lot of you are right. What the original poster was talking about, is that you understand whats going on behind the scenes better. I know a good amount of asm, and, when I program in c/c++, I understand whats going on with each statement. I start to count cycles in my head (for most people, its pretty much useless), and, it may or may not be faster, but I understand the code better. If you put 2 programmer s against each other, both writing c, but one knows asm also, I'm willing to bet that the c/asm coder will program circles around the c coder. O, and I broke out my old 86/186 reference, je (jump on equal) is 01110100 and takes 16 or 4 clocks, and jne is 01110101 and takes 16 or 4 clocks, so, they are real instructions, and are in all x86s.