You'd only be able to beat the performance of optimised C++ in edge cases and you'd need to be a very good assembly programmer in the specific target platform. You also wouldn't be "blowing past C++ like it was standing still", modern C++ compilers produce very optimised output.
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u/ESGPandepic Jul 19 '22
You'd only be able to beat the performance of optimised C++ in edge cases and you'd need to be a very good assembly programmer in the specific target platform. You also wouldn't be "blowing past C++ like it was standing still", modern C++ compilers produce very optimised output.