Hand-written assembly has certainly fallen out of favor in the current age, after all - it is not easy to beat the compiler!
This has been my observation as well. I had to implement division in software for a microcontroller. No matter what algorithms and compiler flags I tried, IIRC the simple handwritten assembly was both shorter und faster.
But on the other hand side: is handwritten assembly even allowed in safety critical environments that have to follow e.g. DO-178B?
To the contrary, I’d argue hand written assembly can be even easier in DO-178C (revision B is not the most up to date anymore since the early 2010s).
You have to trace which source code becomes which object code. With modern compiler tricks that becomes pretty hard. If you write assembly right away, thats one thing you don’t have to do.
Welcome to lobsters! Just a heads up, we have a community norm here that posters should limit self promotion (submitting things they worked on or wrote) to no more than a quarter of posts and comments. Are there any interesting Ada articles you’ve run into that are worth submitting?
No it’s fine! It’s just that a lot of people who come in don’t realize that lobsters has a much stronger norm about this than other places. One post isn’t a problem, two isn’t, five posts is. So we try to let people know this early so they’re aware.
For anyone with questions I am available to answer : )
Ada to Rust ratio in open source world should be 1:1 :)
Couldn’t agree more!
This has been my observation as well. I had to implement division in software for a microcontroller. No matter what algorithms and compiler flags I tried, IIRC the simple handwritten assembly was both shorter und faster.
But on the other hand side: is handwritten assembly even allowed in safety critical environments that have to follow e.g. DO-178B?
To the contrary, I’d argue hand written assembly can be even easier in DO-178C (revision B is not the most up to date anymore since the early 2010s).
You have to trace which source code becomes which object code. With modern compiler tricks that becomes pretty hard. If you write assembly right away, thats one thing you don’t have to do.
Welcome to lobsters! Just a heads up, we have a community norm here that posters should limit self promotion (submitting things they worked on or wrote) to no more than a quarter of posts and comments. Are there any interesting Ada articles you’ve run into that are worth submitting?
EDIT: Ah I understand - I can submit another Ada post as well
No it’s fine! It’s just that a lot of people who come in don’t realize that lobsters has a much stronger norm about this than other places. One post isn’t a problem, two isn’t, five posts is. So we try to let people know this early so they’re aware.
Appreciate the advice 👍