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Re:Harvey – An effort to provide a modern, distributed, 64-b... by cmrdporcupine on Friday December 22, 2017 @10:21PM (#15992729)
Except in this day and age reading the assembly language doesn't give you the same kind of insight into how the hardware will perform as it did 15 years ago.
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Re:Harvey – An effort to provide a modern, distributed, 64-b... by minipci1321 on Saturday December 23, 2017 @07:50AM (#15993981)
Oh, it might still give the same insight -- for example, when people reading assembler today are the same ones who did that 15 years ago.
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Re:Harvey – An effort to provide a modern, distributed, 64-b... by bb88 on Saturday December 23, 2017 @10:49PM (#15997822)
Or in BSD's case, 30 or 40 years ago.
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