7 Assembler myths

1.Assembler is not flexible.
2.Assembler is conductive to writing buggy code.
3.Assembler is worse then compiler optimized code.
4.Modern CPUs ruin assembler performance.
5.Productivity of assembler is low.
6.Assembler is hard to read or understand.
7.Assembler is not portable.

>>6
If you're just doing computation, assembler is not all that verbose.

Of course, that's not where the interesting parts are.