了解汇编程序的原因之一是,有时可以使用汇编程序来编写比用高级语言(特别是C语言)编写的代码性能更好的代码。然而,我也听人说过很多次,尽管这并非完全错误,但实际上可以使用汇编程序来生成性能更好的代码的情况极其罕见,并且需要汇编方面的专业知识和经验。

这个问题甚至没有涉及到这样一个事实,即汇编程序指令将是特定于机器的、不可移植的,或者汇编程序的任何其他方面。当然,除了这一点之外,了解汇编还有很多很好的理由,但这是一个需要示例和数据的具体问题,而不是关于汇编程序与高级语言的扩展论述。

谁能提供一些具体的例子,说明使用现代编译器汇编代码比编写良好的C代码更快,并且您能否用分析证据支持这一说法?我相信这些案例确实存在,但我真的很想知道这些案例到底有多深奥,因为这似乎是一个有争议的问题。


当前回答

一个更著名的组装片段来自Michael Abrash的纹理映射循环(在这里详细解释):

add edx,[DeltaVFrac] ; add in dVFrac
sbb ebp,ebp ; store carry
mov [edi],al ; write pixel n
mov al,[esi] ; fetch pixel n+1
add ecx,ebx ; add in dUFrac
adc esi,[4*ebp + UVStepVCarry]; add in steps

现在,大多数编译器将高级CPU特定指令表示为intrinsic,即编译为实际指令的函数。MS Visual c++支持MMX、SSE、SSE2、SSE3和SSE4的intrinsic,因此您不必太过担心使用特定于平台的指令来进行汇编。Visual c++还可以通过适当的/ARCH设置来利用您所针对的实际体系结构。

其他回答

我想说的是,当你比编译器更擅长一组给定的指令时。所以我认为没有通用的答案

这很难具体地回答,因为这个问题非常不具体:到底什么是“现代编译器”?

理论上,几乎任何手动的汇编器优化都可以由编译器来完成——实际上它是否已经完成,不能笼统地说,只能说特定编译器的特定版本。许多可能需要花费大量的精力来确定它们是否可以在特定的上下文中应用而不产生副作用,以至于编译器编写者不会为它们烦恼。

Actually you can build large scale programs in a large model mode segaments may be restricted to 64kb code but you can write many segaments, people give the argument against ASM as it is an old language and we don't need to preserve memory anymore, If that were the case why would we be packing our PC's with memory, the only Flaw I can find with ASM is that it is more or less Processor based so most programs written for the intel architecture Most likely would not run on An AMD Architecture. As for C being faster than ASM there is no language faster than ASM and ASM can do many thing's C and other HLL's can not do at processor level. ASM is a difficult language to learn but once you learn it no HLL can translate it better than you. If you could only see some of the things HLL's Do to you code, and understand what it is doing, you would wonder why More people don't use ASM and why assembers are no longer being updated ( For general public use anyway). So no C is not faster than ASM. Even experiences C++ programmers still use and write code Chunks in ASM added to there C++ code for speed. Other Languages Also that some people think are obsolete or possibly no good is a myth at times for instance Photoshop is written in Pascal/ASM 1st release of souce has been submitted to the technical history museum, and paintshop pro is written still written in Python,TCL and ASM ... a common denominator of these to "Fast and Great image processors is ASM, although photoshop may have Upgraded to delphi now it is still pascal. and any speed problems are comming from pascal but this is because we like the way programs look and not what they do now days. I would like to make a Photoshop Clone in pure ASM which I have been working on and its comming along rather well. not code,interpret,arange,rewwrite,etc.... Just code and go process complete.

只要有合适的程序员,汇编程序总是可以比C程序快(至少稍微快一点)。如果不能从汇编器中取出至少一条指令,则很难创建一个C程序。

,问了这个问题,并给出了使用汇编的利弊。