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Re:Show HN: Accelerating SHA256 by 100x in Golang on ARM by nickcw on Wednesday July 27, 2016 @05:35PM (#12176690)
Because the Go assembler doesn't have those instructions built in most likely.

That sort of thing is quite common in Go assembler. The assemblers are a little primitive and they force the assembly language for each processor into a common pattern, so when you are writing ARM assembler for instance, everything is backwards.

I imagine having rationalised the assemblers between processors somewhat it makes the core developers lives easier though who have to lightly touch lots of different processor assembler.

Re:Show HN: Accelerating SHA256 by 100x in Golang on ARM by pjmlp on Thursday July 28, 2016 @08:25AM (#12179742)
Backwards from AT&T point of view, right?

Because for me it feels very natural, given the Z80 and Intel Assembly.