Even game designers hate assembly

When updating 10,000 objects at 60 FPS,
everything is performance-sensitive
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But:
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Productivity is just as important
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Will gladly sacrifice 10% of our performance
for 10% higher productivity
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We never use assembly language

https://www.st.cs.uni-saarland.de/edu/seminare/2005/advanced-fp/docs/sweeny.pdf

Cudder, face it, you're a dying breed. Soon there will be no more than 10 people in the world who write assembly by hand.

>>10

taking advantage of modern hardware
modifying compiler to run on older hardware as well

scalability sucks!