Path: csiph.com!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Tim Rentsch Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++ Subject: Re: Threads across programming languages Date: Tue, 21 May 2024 16:34:48 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 19 Message-ID: <86a5kisprb.fsf@linuxsc.com> References: <20240503180102.00002f98@yahoo.com> <86ikzqtwqr.fsf@linuxsc.com> <86cyppru3q.fsf@linuxsc.com> <126394fbbc6a61aa1257379032ed4fc43689a61c.camel@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Injection-Date: Wed, 22 May 2024 01:34:50 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="ef527a1f0ace8b0bcb46bd1e68f4f6ae"; logging-data="874230"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19SUHC0gRStKIiwuJB27phVCLMEYq5G9kw=" User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.4 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:CLzQenG6pWJuPN/XLl+8dK7yqYs= sha1:il1saL/K6Q3j1EbM3j1L3kqueAQ= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.c++:119260 Paavo Helde writes: > On 15.05.2024 03:31, wij wrote: [...] >> Assembly has its bads, but considering the fact that writting >> assembly is basically the same as writting high level language >> except the compilation is done by human instead of automated by >> the compilation tools. [...] Not so. It is well documented, and has been for something like fifty years, that writing code in a high-level language is about five times as productive as writing in assembly. There are very few programs that need even one percent of the code written in assembly. > To be honest, I am a bit baffled we are having this kind of > conversation so far into the 21-st century. You are a master of understatement.