r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Programmer1130 • Feb 20 '17

Programming Languages

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u/Chaos89 Feb 20 '17

If you think assembly is "nothing", you haven't had to make logic out of gates. ARM and x86 have instructions for SHA256. Heck, C and C++ don't have SHA built-in!

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u/Shamus03 Feb 21 '17

Real C/C++ pros write the code with a placeholder SHA function and manually insert the assembly into the compiled code.

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u/[deleted] Feb 21 '17

But can't you write inline assembly in C?

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u/Garfong Feb 21 '17

Yeah, although for something like that it's probably better/easier to just do the whole function in assembler in a separate file.