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A comment on Ask HN: What is hand-coded assembly language used for these days?.

Re:Ask HN: What is hand-coded assembly language used for the... by andrewf on Monday November 02, 2009 @04:52AM (#916508)
Going the other way around - can anyone think of an open source project that could benefit from some assembly optimization, and isn't? I'd love an excuse to play with this stuff in a useful fashion.

(I love what I do, but my twelve year old self would be disgusted that I'm not writing games.)

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Re:Ask HN: What is hand-coded assembly language used for the... by jermy on Monday November 02, 2009 @08:58AM (#916771)
video playback and compression is sufficiently cool, and could benefit from optimisation. Have a look to see if any help is needed in the ffmpeg tree at the moment.
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