Is learning ASM important to my career?

[cube01]

I've been program in C++ for about 5 years now and have just recently started learning ASM...
I was just curious as to the relevency of asm in todays high-level programming world..
I'll continue studying it regardless as it's pretty interesting stuff but I jus' wanted to know if it's worth it from a career point of view...
Thanks in advance for any responses...

-Cube

[Manish Malik]

You'll need asm specially where you'd develop applications that require very high speed optimizations - and you don't want to go through the C++ libraries to make it generate cumbersome and slower code that you would otherwise write in 2 lines with asm.

A major application in industry today is to design new compilers, or hardware interface drivers for various devices, including computer peripherals.

Another major area is Computer Graphics programming - specially in case of Graphic Apps, and Games - which require heavy optimizations in interacting with hardware.

It's anyways always advisable to learn asm - you're closer to the basics this way.


Manish
http://www.manishmalik.com

[HarryMiller]

It is never a bad idea to learn ASM (I know enough to understand it when doing low level debugging), but I would not recomend it just to put on a resume.