We all probably know that for ultimate control and maximum performance, you need assembly language. No matter how good your compiler is, you’ll almost always be able to do better by using you… ...

Like assembly language, C/C++ can manipulate the bits at the machine level, but it is also portable to different computer platforms. There are C/C++ compilers for almost all computers.

But there are a lot of non-trivial things you can do if you know assembly language(s) than if you don’t. Report comment. Reply. ... Back To The Future, 40 Years Old, Looks Like The Past ...