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Linus Torvalds Takes On A Performance Patch: "I Relax By Playing With Inline Assembly" (www.phoronix.com)

submitted 3 years ago by snaggen@programming.dev to c/programming@programming.dev

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Yes, who haven't had a glass of red wine, relaxing music and some inline assembly....

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[–] jormaig@programming.dev 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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[–] Hexarei@programming.dev 2 points 3 years ago

He didn't realize assembly was a thing, so he was actually writing machine code instructions

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[–] solidsnail@programming.dev 2 points 3 years ago

He was probably working with bytes and not individual bits, but yeah. He basically wrote executables directly (to my understanding).

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