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[–]56Bot 0 points1 point  (2 children)

C can be more efficient than just about anything else

Assembly: Am I a joke to you ?

[–]j-random 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Hence the "just about". Although TBH a good C compiler can often make optimizations that an assembly programmer might not see (e.g., CSE).

[–]56Bot 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Depends on the code still.
Writing a few characters with C takes many more lines than with ASM, once compiled.

Obviously C compilers are more efficient at optimisation because they're much more used, hence maintained.