<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >Do you need assembly?</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.7"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="Linux Assembly HOWTO" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="Introduction" HREF="introduction.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="Pros and Cons" HREF="x120.html"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="CHAPTER" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >Linux Assembly HOWTO</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="introduction.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="x120.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><DIV CLASS="CHAPTER" ><H1 ><A NAME="S-DOYOU" ></A >Chapter 2. Do you need assembly?</H1 ><DIV CLASS="TOC" ><DL ><DT ><B >Table of Contents</B ></DT ><DT >2.1. <A HREF="x120.html" >Pros and Cons</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT >2.1.1. <A HREF="x120.html#AEN122" >The advantages of Assembly</A ></DT ><DT >2.1.2. <A HREF="x120.html#AEN144" >The disadvantages of Assembly</A ></DT ><DT >2.1.3. <A HREF="x120.html#AEN172" >Assessment</A ></DT ></DL ></DD ><DT >2.2. <A HREF="howtonot.html" >How to NOT use Assembly</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT >2.2.1. <A HREF="howtonot.html#AEN192" >General procedure to achieve efficient code</A ></DT ><DT >2.2.2. <A HREF="howtonot.html#AEN198" >Languages with optimizing compilers</A ></DT ><DT >2.2.3. <A HREF="howtonot.html#AEN202" >General procedure to speed your code up</A ></DT ><DT >2.2.4. <A HREF="howtonot.html#AEN218" >Inspecting compiler-generated code</A ></DT ></DL ></DD ><DT >2.3. <A HREF="landa.html" >Linux and assembly</A ></DT ></DL ></DIV ><P >Well, I wouldn't want to interfere with what you're doing, but here is some advice from the hard-earned experience.</P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="introduction.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="x120.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >Introduction</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" > </TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >Pros and Cons</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >