NiHaDuncan@lemmy.worldtoProgramming@programming.dev•Linus Torvalds Takes On A Performance Patch: "I Relax By Playing With Inline Assembly"English
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1 year agoHe 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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