>>107
You mentioned the JIT.
Newsflash: there are more than two of us in this thread. *gasp*
>>108
automatic register management being efficient is a relatively new invention.
And automatic memory management is a relatively fictional invention.
I'm not sure what your point is either. People still wrote a lot of stuff in assembly until compilers became efficient. It's 2011 and garbage collectors are still grossly inefficient, so doesn't it make sense to skip them for non-trivial applications? We've seen how slow and unresponsive Java apps like Eclipse can be. They're awful. Besides, manually managing memory is not nearly as difficult or time-consuming as handcoding assembly; in fact memory management comes naturally in a well-designed application.
modern
XNA. Love2d. Moai.
I lol'd