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Embedded system folks who target very small and cheap processors. (The last time I did this, I had a 2K code budget, and the CPU was under 20 cents).

People hacking at a very low level, e.g., for boot code, or TLB miss handlers.

Places where you need to be highly efficient, and where cycles matter.

Places where compilers don't operate well (e.g., specialized instructions for doing shared memory operations, or stack manipulations for doing things like coroutines).

I might go a year or so without touching assembly now, but not much more than that.




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