TIOBE said in a recent post. "The only reasonable explanation for this is that the number of very small devices that are only able to run assembly code is increasing. Even your tooth brush or coffee ...

Age of Empires Age of Empires developer confirms the game is mostly written in low-level Assembly code because 'we could scroll the screen and fill it with sprites as fast or faster' than ...

The coders credit their handwritten assembly code for the speed increase, together with the extensive use of the AVX-512 extensions to the x86 ISA available in modern computer processors.