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@cobbpg @jos1264 Just look at the size of the JVM. If the benchmark is your typical #C64 hand-written assembly code, this certainly qualifies for "bloat" π
Regarding features, yes, #kickassembler has an insanely powerful macro language, actually more like a full-blown scripting language in disguise. That makes it quite popular among demo coders, for example.
What it lacks (at least for my "taste") is a linker. Defining your memory map in a "linker script" and then just filling segments (including e.g. #zeropage) in individual modules, leaving the hard stuff to the linker, is a whole new level compared to traditional toolchains more similar to what you had on the real machine.
I can easily use whatever language I like to precalculate my triangulated sprite flight paths or whatever ... but I can't replace a linker with external tools π