Quote Originally Posted by Delfi
i thought asm is machine code.. hand crafted x86 beats any compiler, but doing that on a 64 bit cpu is overkill, you can't beat teh compiler there with all the registers and stuff.
I really dont understand this statement. Programming assembly amd64 is so much easier than intel x86 one. Amd64 cpus have lots of new general purpouse registry, have transparent 64bit implementation, have all what a programmer could want. Why do you think is "overkill"?