Talk:Assembly

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"As it is closer to the machine's own language, Assembly is generally faster than other languages."

This is not quite true. It used to be true that running some compiled C code would be slower than the hand-written assembly code, because of compiler inefficiency. These days, except for very simple tasks, optimized compilers will produce better assembly code than a human. crtn

I'll take your word on that but many of the developers I've talked to have claimed this. Webfork