了解汇编程序的原因之一是,有时可以使用汇编程序来编写比用高级语言(特别是C语言)编写的代码性能更好的代码。然而,我也听人说过很多次,尽管这并非完全错误,但实际上可以使用汇编程序来生成性能更好的代码的情况极其罕见,并且需要汇编方面的专业知识和经验。

这个问题甚至没有涉及到这样一个事实,即汇编程序指令将是特定于机器的、不可移植的,或者汇编程序的任何其他方面。当然,除了这一点之外,了解汇编还有很多很好的理由,但这是一个需要示例和数据的具体问题,而不是关于汇编程序与高级语言的扩展论述。

谁能提供一些具体的例子,说明使用现代编译器汇编代码比编写良好的C代码更快,并且您能否用分析证据支持这一说法?我相信这些案例确实存在,但我真的很想知道这些案例到底有多深奥,因为这似乎是一个有争议的问题。


当前回答

使用SIMD指令的矩阵操作可能比编译器生成的代码更快。

其他回答

在Amiga上,CPU和图形/音频芯片会为了访问特定区域的RAM(具体来说是前2MB的RAM)而争斗。因此,当你只有2MB RAM(或更少)时,显示复杂的图形加上播放声音会杀死CPU的性能。

在汇编程序中,你可以巧妙地交错你的代码,使CPU只在图形/音频芯片内部繁忙时(即当总线空闲时)才尝试访问RAM。因此,通过重新排序指令,巧妙地使用CPU缓存,总线定时,你可以实现一些使用任何高级语言都不可能实现的效果,因为你必须为每个命令定时,甚至在这里或那里插入nop,以使不同的芯片不受彼此的雷达影响。

这也是为什么CPU的NOP (No Operation -什么都不做)指令实际上可以让你的整个应用程序运行得更快的另一个原因。

当然,这种技术取决于特定的硬件设置。这就是为什么许多Amiga游戏无法适应更快的cpu的主要原因:指令的计时错误。

我认为汇编程序更快的一般情况是,当一个聪明的汇编程序员看到编译器的输出并说“这是性能的关键路径,我可以写这个更有效”,然后那个人调整汇编程序或从头重写它。

Actually you can build large scale programs in a large model mode segaments may be restricted to 64kb code but you can write many segaments, people give the argument against ASM as it is an old language and we don't need to preserve memory anymore, If that were the case why would we be packing our PC's with memory, the only Flaw I can find with ASM is that it is more or less Processor based so most programs written for the intel architecture Most likely would not run on An AMD Architecture. As for C being faster than ASM there is no language faster than ASM and ASM can do many thing's C and other HLL's can not do at processor level. ASM is a difficult language to learn but once you learn it no HLL can translate it better than you. If you could only see some of the things HLL's Do to you code, and understand what it is doing, you would wonder why More people don't use ASM and why assembers are no longer being updated ( For general public use anyway). So no C is not faster than ASM. Even experiences C++ programmers still use and write code Chunks in ASM added to there C++ code for speed. Other Languages Also that some people think are obsolete or possibly no good is a myth at times for instance Photoshop is written in Pascal/ASM 1st release of souce has been submitted to the technical history museum, and paintshop pro is written still written in Python,TCL and ASM ... a common denominator of these to "Fast and Great image processors is ASM, although photoshop may have Upgraded to delphi now it is still pascal. and any speed problems are comming from pascal but this is because we like the way programs look and not what they do now days. I would like to make a Photoshop Clone in pure ASM which I have been working on and its comming along rather well. not code,interpret,arange,rewwrite,etc.... Just code and go process complete.

我想说的是,当你比编译器更擅长一组给定的指令时。所以我认为没有通用的答案

GCC已经成为广泛使用的编译器。它的优化通常不是很好。比编写汇编程序的普通程序员好得多,但就实际性能而言,并没有那么好。有些编译器产生的代码简直令人难以置信。所以一般来说,有很多地方你可以进入编译器的输出,调整汇编器的性能,和/或简单地从头重写例程。