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Re:The SNESticle Liberation Project by Wowfunhappy on Monday January 17, 2022 @10:31PM (#29974716)
I mean, they're still mostly using C. You can find inline assembly even today in e.g. video decoders like x264. Not a ton of course, but they do use it.
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Re:The SNESticle Liberation Project by klodolph on Tuesday January 18, 2022 @02:08AM (#29976051)
x264 relies heavily on files written entirely in assembly, not just inline assembly.

Example: https://github.com/mirror/x264/blob/master/common/x86/dct-64...

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Re:The SNESticle Liberation Project by Wowfunhappy on Tuesday January 18, 2022 @09:16AM (#29979429)
Oh—even better! So yeah, we still use assembly in the places where it’s absolutely performance critical, it’s not inherently anachronistic.
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