snaggen to ProgrammingEnglish · 1 year agoLinus Torvalds Takes On A Performance Patch: "I Relax By Playing With Inline Assembly"www.phoronix.comexternal-linkmessage-square37fedilinkarrow-up1128arrow-down12file-text
arrow-up1126arrow-down1external-linkLinus Torvalds Takes On A Performance Patch: "I Relax By Playing With Inline Assembly"www.phoronix.comsnaggen to ProgrammingEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square37fedilinkfile-text
minus-squarejormaiglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoWhat does he mean by machine code? Like assembly files or literally 1s and 0s?
minus-squaresolidsnaillinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 year agoHe was probably working with bytes and not individual bits, but yeah. He basically wrote executables directly (to my understanding).
minus-squareHexareilinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 year agoHe didn’t realize assembly was a thing, so he was actually writing machine code instructions
What does he mean by machine code? Like assembly files or literally 1s and 0s?
He was probably working with bytes and not individual bits, but yeah. He basically wrote executables directly (to my understanding).
He didn’t realize assembly was a thing, so he was actually writing machine code instructions