What is the fastest Amiga assembler

[Karlos]

Originally Posted by Thorham

An Amiga?

It's a benchmarking exercise rather than someone needing to speed up a large build, right?

[NorthWay]

Originally Posted by phx

But Basm is a single-pass assembler

Are we talking abut the same product? I've had it do 11-12 passes on my builds some times.

[Thorham]

Originally Posted by Karlos

It's a benchmarking exercise rather than someone needing to speed up a large build, right?

Some people use their Amigas for programming in assembly language, so a fast assembler helps.

[Karlos]

Originally Posted by Thorham

Some people use their Amigas for programming in assembly language, so a fast assembler helps.

Sure, I used to (I use vasm these days). I guess I got spoiled by having an accelerated machine, even if it was just an 040. I don't ever recall the time it took assembly code to build being annoying, no matter which assembler I used. C, on the other hand, yes. Especially with optimisations enabled. That could take a while. Even that stopped being much of an issue when I used StormC 4, since there were PPC native compiler backends that were a lot faster.

[phx]

Originally Posted by NorthWay

Are we talking abut the same product?

Not sure. BAsm = Barfly Assembler by Ralph Schmidt?

I've had it do 11-12 passes on my builds some times.

Hmm. The version I remember definitely mentioned in the documentation it is a single-pass assembler, and some of the problems this causes.

[a/b]

Single-pass meaning it parses the source only once and constructs the entire code in pass1, and then in a short pass2 it handles the unresolved symbols. Optimizer is multi-pass, as usual.