On Oct 9, 1:50 pm, "Simon Ask Ulsnes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'll be looking forward to seeing your implementation in the near
> future, then. :-)
Check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logical_fallacy :-)))
But seriously, assembly code is just as robust or as flaky as unsafe
languages such as C or C++. In both cases, sloppy programming causes
disaster. The answer is to not be sloppy, and to use low-level code
sparingly, preferably in inner unrolled loops only. There is no point
whatsoever in coding the 90% non-inner loops of any system or
application in an unsafe language at all.
Native code generators are inherently more stable than hand-written
assembly code anyway, since you only code a few target snippets in
assembler by hand and then let your high-level code combine them.
This completely overcomes the extra programming complexity introduced
by the low level of assembly code, since you're not really programming
anything large in assembler. To say that such code segfaults half the
time is just completely wrong, assuming that the design of the high
level code generator program is adequate.
Morgaine.
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