On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 09:52:26PM -0400, Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx wrote: > On Tue, 21 Apr 2015 01:05:19 -0000, "Chaturvedi, Akash" said: > > > I am writing MIPS assembly code for a 'Word guessing game'. > > Why? > > gcc -O2 will almost certainly generate faster code than you can (unless you're > *really* good at MIPS assembler, in which case you wouldn't have posted). This is a common response to questions like this (questions asking about assembly language). Learning assembly can be fun. When I read this question, my first thought was 'cool, someone is learning assembly language'. Then I wondered how this is related to the topic of this list. I see two camps. One says don't bother to learn assembly because a compiler is usually better. The other says, learning assembly language will help you be a better programming in general. I have always been curious about assembly language. Taking a few months and writing a bunch of programs in assembly then seeing how others did it was really an overall good thing. Assembly language seemed like magic to me for many years. _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
