An aerospace engineer is writing the control firmware for a CubeSat micro-thruster system, which has highly constrained onboard memory and must execute commands with precise, microsecond-level timing.
State two reasons why the engineer would choose to write this firmware using assembly language instead of a high-level language.
48 exam-style questions on AQA GCSE Computer Science Classification of programming languages and translators. Each one has a worked solution and a mark scheme showing where the marks go.