There are still jobs where you end up writing large amounts of asm regularly and this is absolutely table-stakes for that. Otherwise there would be no point usi

There are still jobs where you end up writing large amounts of asm regularly and this is absolutely table-stakes for that. Otherwise there would be no point using asm at all, you’d just use C or another high-level language. There was once a case where someone dropped from asm to machine code to shave a little more performance off. Sometimes asm is too high-level.