你好，我是一个编译器。

I just scanned thousands of lines of code while you were reading this sentence. I browsed through millions of possibilities of optimizing a single line of yours using hundreds of different optimization techniques based on a vast amount of academic research that you would spend years getting at. I won't feel any embarrassment, not even a slight ick, when I convert a three-line loop to thousands of instructions just to make it faster. I have no shame to go to great lengths of optimization or to do the dirtiest tricks. And if you don't want me to, maybe for a day or two, I'll behave and do it the way you like. I can transform the methods I'm using whenever you want, without even changing a single line of your code. I can even show you how your code would look in assembly, on different processor architectures and different operating systems and in different assembly conventions if you'd like. Yes, all in seconds. Because, you know, I can; and you know, you can't.

附言:哦，顺便说一下，你没有使用你写的一半代码。我帮了你一个忙，把它扔了。

你好，我是一个编译器。

I just scanned thousands of lines of code while you were reading this sentence. I browsed through millions of possibilities of optimizing a single line of yours using hundreds of different optimization techniques based on a vast amount of academic research that you would spend years getting at. I won't feel any embarrassment, not even a slight ick, when I convert a three-line loop to thousands of instructions just to make it faster. I have no shame to go to great lengths of optimization or to do the dirtiest tricks. And if you don't want me to, maybe for a day or two, I'll behave and do it the way you like. I can transform the methods I'm using whenever you want, without even changing a single line of your code. I can even show you how your code would look in assembly, on different processor architectures and different operating systems and in different assembly conventions if you'd like. Yes, all in seconds. Because, you know, I can; and you know, you can't.

附言:哦，顺便说一下，你没有使用你写的一半代码。我帮了你一个忙，把它扔了。

我“过去”写了很多汇编程序，我可以向你保证，当我用高级语言写程序时，我的效率要高得多。

我已经为6502、Z80、6809和8086芯片编写了大量的汇编程序。当C编译器在我所处理的平台上可用时，我就停止了这样做，并且立即提高了至少10倍的生产力。大多数优秀的程序员使用他们所使用的工具是出于合理的原因。

当你用汇编语言写作时，你不必只写指令代码。您可以使用宏、过程和您自己的约定来进行各种抽象，使程序更模块化、更可维护、更易于阅读。

因此，您基本上是在说，通过熟练地使用复杂的汇编程序，您可以使ASM代码越来越接近C(或者您自己发明的另一种低级语言)，直到最终您的工作效率与C程序员一样高。

这是否回答了你的问题?: -)

我并不是在无所事事地说:我已经使用这样的汇编器和系统进行了编程。更好的是，汇编程序可以以虚拟处理器为目标，并且一个单独的翻译程序可以为目标平台编译汇编程序的输出。与LLVM的IF很相似，但其早期形式比它早了大约10年。因此，有了可移植性，再加上为特定目标汇编器编写例程的能力，以提高效率。

Writing using that assembler was about as productive as C, and with by comparison with GCC-3 (which was around by the time I was involved) the assembler/translator produced code that was roughly as fast and usually smaller. Size was really important, and the company had few programmers and was willing to teach new hires a new language before they could do anything useful. And we had the back-up that people who didn't know the assembler (e.g. customers) could write C and compile it for the same virtual processor, using the same calling convention and so on, so that it interfaced neatly. So it felt like a marginal win.

这是在开发汇编程序技术、库等方面花费了许多人多年的工作。不可否认的是，其中大部分都是为了使其可移植，如果它只针对一种架构，那么所有唱歌所有跳舞的汇编器就会容易得多。

总而言之:你可能不喜欢C语言，但这并不意味着使用C语言的努力就比想出更好的东西的努力更大。

作为一名大部分时间都在嵌入式编程领域工作的开发人员，我认为汇编语言还远远没有成为一种死亡/过时的语言。有某种接近金属级别的编码(例如，在驱动程序中)有时不能用高级语言准确或有效地表达。我们几乎所有的硬件接口例程都是用汇编程序编写的。

That being said, this assembly code is wrapped such that it can be called from C code and is treated like a library. We don't write the entire program in assembly for many reasons. First and foremost is portability; our code base is used on several products that use different architectures and we want to maximize the amount of code that can be shared between them. Second is developer familiarity. Simply put, schools don't teach assembly like they used to, and our developers are far more productive in C than in assembly. Also, we have a wide variety of "extras" (things like libraries, debuggers, static analysis tools, etc) available for our C code that aren't available for assembly language code. Even if we wanted to write a pure-assembly program, we would not be able to because several critical hardware libraries are only available as C libs. In one sense, it's a chicken/egg problem. People are driven away from assembly because there aren't as many libraries and development/debug tools available for it, but the libs/tools don't exist because not enough people use assembly to warrant the effort creating them.

最后，任何语言都有适用的时间和地点。人们使用他们最熟悉和最有成效的东西。在程序员的程序库中可能总会有汇编的位置，但是大多数程序员会发现他们可以用一种高级语言编写代码，这种语言在更少的时间内几乎同样高效。