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Re:Ask HN: What is hand-coded assembly language used for the... by bilbo0s on Monday November 02, 2009 @01:16AM (#916301)
Medical Imaging and Oil Exploration. A lot of the really fast packages are using ARB Assembly instead of GLSL to minimize the number of instructions per voxel. It adds up if you are doing 4D imaging in real time for instance.
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