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Terje Mathisen <terje.mathisen@tmsw.no> writes:

[discussing programming in different assembly languages]

>> I don't believe that there are any other current architectures out
>> there which are as nightmarish to program in assembler as the Itanium,
>
> Huh???
>
> I studied the Itanium architecture manuals and amused myself by
> writing asm kernels that took good advantage of the large register
> set, including the rotating ones.
>
> Not at all a nightmare!
>
> In fact, writing x87 asm by hand, trying to keep every working
> variable live on the 8-element stack, is significantly harder IMHO.

If you don't mind my saying so, I think you have demonstrated
a sufficient level of experience and ability to safely drop
the H from IMHO.  At least, it seems clear to me that you are
world class in this particular area.