optimization by as

[Yury Gribov]

On 08/17/2015 05:37 PM, Paul_Koning@Dell.com wrote:
> The other (now rare) job of the assembler is to process human-written assembly code.  There too it must stay out of the way, because the only time when hand-written assembly code is justified is when the human needs *complete* control over what happens.

At least for VLIWs or some weird accelerators you'd want automatic 
scheduling and reg. allocation from assembler.  Otherwise it's 
practically impossible to write assembly code by hand in a scalable way.

-Y