Quote Originally Posted by GendoIkari
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"?
overkill is, when you try to keep track of all the new registers trying not to screw up your asm code, you can't beat compilers at that.