An introduction to Solidity and its advantages
Assembly programming in Solidity is low-level programming in which we can use opcodes and work with them directly. There are many advantages to using assembly language while writing contracts. The major advantages include the following:
- Added capability: There are a few things that can only be done using assembly programming in Solidity. Some of these capabilities are not available in Solidity grammar itself – for example, determining whether an address is a contract address can be ascertained in assembly but not in Solidity. It should be noted that Solidity developers are trying to minimize this gap in the newer versions of the language.
- Optimization of gas usage: We can optimize code by writing assembly code because it has fewer instructions compared to Solidity compiler-generated code.
- Having full control: Writing assembly language directly gives us more control over generated bytecode compared to the compiler...