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| From | Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.c |
| Subject | Re: Looking for experienced C/C++ / ASM programmer |
| Date | 2011-11-05 12:52 +1300 |
| Message-ID | <9hjc6jF62fU7@mid.individual.net> (permalink) |
| References | (8 earlier) <j910eg$3ia$1@news.albasani.net> <vu98b79vrj94pc02fas6lt4n74dq3amh3o@4ax.com> <j91pd9$rp5$1@news.albasani.net> <9hj8a6F62fU4@mid.individual.net> <j91slr$2ho$1@news.albasani.net> |
On 11/ 5/11 12:31 PM, BGB wrote: > On 11/4/2011 3:46 PM, Ian Collins wrote: >> On 11/ 5/11 11:36 AM, BGB wrote: >>> On 11/4/2011 11:01 AM, Robert Wessel wrote: >>>> >>>> For the vast majority of users, PC effectively aren't programmable >>>> either - almost all software run on 95% of PCs is written by a "few" >>>> people who then run off "millions" of units. >>> >>> but, there are lots more programmers on the PC, like just how many >>> people are involved in the creation of typical desktop software (such as >>> an OS, web-browser, of office suite). >> >> So what minute fraction of 1% of those programmers are writing (or even >> know how to write) in assembler? >> > > who knows exactly?... So "lots of people" is a small number. > but, at least parts of both Linux and FireFox are written in > assembler... (although the vast majority of this is C, or a mix of C and > C++ in the case of FF). Very small parts, parts that need to access machine registers. The only x86 bits assembler I've ever had to write are low level scheduling primitives. > the Quake3 engine also manually-crafted machine code in a few places > (generally building machine code from hex-strings). Yet another very small niche. > I guess the question would be to determine just how many people > in-general use ASM/native-code this was... Hardly any. -- Ian Collins
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Re: Looking for experienced C/C++ / ASM programmer jgharston <jgh@arcade.demon.co.uk> - 2011-10-31 07:05 -0700
Re: Looking for experienced C/C++ / ASM programmer BGB <cr88192@hotmail.com> - 2011-10-31 07:38 -0700
Re: Looking for experienced C/C++ / ASM programmer jgharston <jgh@arcade.demon.co.uk> - 2011-10-31 08:51 -0700
Re: Looking for experienced C/C++ / ASM programmer "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> - 2011-10-31 16:39 +0000
Re: Looking for experienced C/C++ / ASM programmer James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2011-10-31 12:58 -0400
Re: Looking for experienced C/C++ / ASM programmer Ark <akhasin@macroexpressions.com> - 2011-11-04 04:51 -0400
Re: Looking for experienced C/C++ / ASM programmer Acid Washed China Blue Jeans <chine.bleu@yahoo.com> - 2011-10-31 10:28 -0700
Re: Looking for experienced C/C++ / ASM programmer Frederick Williams <freddywilliams@btinternet.com> - 2011-10-31 17:55 +0000
Re: Looking for experienced C/C++ / ASM programmer Nick Keighley <nick_keighley_nospam@hotmail.com> - 2011-11-01 06:29 -0700
Re: Looking for experienced C/C++ / ASM programmer jacob navia <jacob@spamsink.net> - 2011-11-01 14:49 +0100
Re: Looking for experienced C/C++ / ASM programmer "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> - 2011-11-01 14:23 +0000
Re: Looking for experienced C/C++ / ASM programmer Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2011-11-02 07:41 +1300
Re: Looking for experienced C/C++ / ASM programmer BGB <cr88192@hotmail.com> - 2011-11-01 15:43 -0700
Re: Looking for experienced C/C++ / ASM programmer gwowen <gwowen@gmail.com> - 2011-11-04 07:07 -0700
Re: Looking for experienced C/C++ / ASM programmer BGB <cr88192@hotmail.com> - 2011-11-04 08:30 -0700
Re: Looking for experienced C/C++ / ASM programmer gwowen <gwowen@gmail.com> - 2011-11-04 09:13 -0700
Re: Looking for experienced C/C++ / ASM programmer "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> - 2011-11-06 21:50 +0000
Re: Looking for experienced C/C++ / ASM programmer Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2011-11-04 16:37 +0000
Re: Looking for experienced C/C++ / ASM programmer Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2011-11-04 13:01 -0500
Re: Looking for experienced C/C++ / ASM programmer Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2011-11-04 11:27 -0700
Re: Looking for experienced C/C++ / ASM programmer BGB <cr88192@hotmail.com> - 2011-11-04 15:36 -0700
Re: Looking for experienced C/C++ / ASM programmer Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2011-11-05 11:46 +1300
Re: Looking for experienced C/C++ / ASM programmer BGB <cr88192@hotmail.com> - 2011-11-04 16:31 -0700
Re: Looking for experienced C/C++ / ASM programmer Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2011-11-05 12:52 +1300
Re: Looking for experienced C/C++ / ASM programmer BGB <cr88192@hotmail.com> - 2011-11-04 17:21 -0700
Re: Looking for experienced C/C++ / ASM programmer Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2011-11-05 13:55 +1300
Re: Looking for experienced C/C++ / ASM programmer BGB <cr88192@hotmail.com> - 2011-11-04 23:23 -0700
Re: Looking for experienced C/C++ / ASM programmer Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2011-11-05 04:21 -0700
Re: Looking for experienced C/C++ / ASM programmer Seebs <usenet-nospam@seebs.net> - 2011-11-06 07:40 +0000
Re: Looking for experienced C/C++ / ASM programmer "io_x" <a@b.c.invalid> - 2011-11-06 09:35 +0100
Re: Looking for experienced C/C++ / ASM programmer Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2011-11-06 16:34 +0000
Re: Looking for experienced C/C++ / ASM programmer BGB <cr88192@hotmail.com> - 2011-11-06 12:47 -0700
Re: Looking for experienced C/C++ / ASM programmer Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2011-11-05 00:31 +0000
Re: Looking for experienced C/C++ / ASM programmer Nick Keighley <nick_keighley_nospam@hotmail.com> - 2011-11-05 02:29 -0700
Re: Looking for experienced C/C++ / ASM programmer Patrick Scheible <kkt@zipcon.net> - 2011-10-31 13:03 -0700
Re: Looking for experienced C/C++ / ASM programmer jgk@panix.com (Joe keane) - 2011-11-04 13:12 +0000
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