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Linus Torvalds Takes On A Performance Patch: "I Relax By Playing With Inline Assembly" (www.phoronix.com)
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Yes, who haven't had a glass of red wine, relaxing music and some inline assembly....

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[–] 27 points 3 years ago (2 children)

He says this because he kind of ignorantly (his own wordage) wrote in machine code for quite some time before realizing assembly was a thing. So for Linus inline assembly is to machine code as python is to c for a lot of us.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (2 children)

    What does he mean by machine code? Like assembly files or literally 1s and 0s?

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