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80x86 ASM for ASP.NET

Posted by timothy on from the contrary dept.

Galen Wolffit writes "A chap out in Denmark has brought us an 80386 Assembler for ASP.NET. This interpreter supports about 61 80x86 instructions, though there are a number of limitations. Why? Why not. And when asked about pointers (which are considered evil in .NET), the author simply says 'With 80386 scripting you can still generate memory exceptions and bring the web-server down. It's things like this that make assembler programmers feel powerful.'"

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  1. Overhead? by exebeoex · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I wonder what kind of overhead this incurs. Afterall, for a number of reasons it would only be as fast as an x86 emulator, no? Not to mention trying to convert register based instructions for use on a stack based machine. But maybe this sort of register->stack translation scheme used can be useful for those working on making a backend to the GCC RTL (register transfer language) for the .NET runtime. Could it?

  2. Fun... Perhaps by foooo · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Fun... Perhaps...

    Useful? Probably not.

    I don't personaly find writing Asm to be the quickest way to code something and the benefit of superfast execution speed is lost when converting to IL.

    If you're going to actually write Assembler... do it the way it's meant to be done. Not in .NET... leave .NET to the high(er) level developers it's aimed at.

    ~foooo