On 5/6/07, W B Hacker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Rogelio Serrano wrote: > On 5/6/07, erik quanstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> >> this absolutist argument that c is teh bomb. asm suks is silly. it's >> like >> arguing bicycles and ferraris. which one you need (and which one gets >> you there faster) depends on what you're doing. >> > > exactly. > > assembler is there because it is needed. if you are writing or porting > a compiler and you dont have an assembler you will end up writing one > anyway. > ... OR machine-coding the 'primitives' for your own virtual-machine to obviate the need for having to worry about it at all.
i see. theres a good idea there somewhere. some sort of vm... highly optimised. well it can be done. but to abstract all hardware, not possible. it will be very complicated and dog slow.
