alt Hacker NewsYes, and? As the cost of code generation approaches zero, this starts to make more sense, especially if you do have mechanisms in place to ensure safety and correctness.
I did an experiment a couple weeks ago of having Opus 5.5 translate an MP3 decoder from Rust into Cortex-M33 assembly language, both raw asm and symbolasm. The code was 3x smaller and ~1.5x faster than Rust -O3. These seem like gains that are worth it.
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genxy • today at 8:50 PM
Did you have it go directly to asm or emit the assembly from the Rust toolchain and then contract that? For small stuff, I have been having it write directly, or larger pieces I am having better results via contractions.
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Yes that makes sense, but if you're iterating on software then I think C will generally win due to its ability to compile cross-platform until you want to build a "release" which you could do by having Fable translate it to ASM at that point.