Writing Contests in Assembly Language?

Revision en1, by gepardo, 2023-01-15 16:35:08

Do you believe this is impossible? It's really not, because some people do it. See yourself:

1775D - Friendly Spiders: 188718250 188731749 188739534

1775F - Laboratory on Pluto: 188742718 188744106 188756319

Writing source code directly in assembly language may make your code faster, as you can write the CPU instructions directly, making some critical optimization faster than the compiler-generated code.

Of course, the statement above about speed is false, and sometimes it's hard to write a faster code than the compiler generates. And, as you can see, the submissions just contain the code generated by the compiler instead of being written manually.

So, why do you think people may want to do this on contests?
Tags c++, assembler, assembly language, cheating, performance

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