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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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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

One of my oldest programming books is all about using machine language to program.

https://vintageapple.org/apple_ii/pdf/Apple_Machine_Language_1981_(raw-bw).pdf

At the time, even assemblers cost money. I remember saving up for Merlin which is an assembler for the Apple II.