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Re:Can you tell an assembly language when you see one? by rtoway on Saturday April 24, 2021 @06:14AM (#26923752)
Isn't x86 assembly not directly executed by the CPU? IIRC it's turned into microcode instructions. I could be wrong though
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Re:Can you tell an assembly language when you see one? by umanwizard on Saturday April 24, 2021 @06:43AM (#26923876)
It’s turned into uops... by the CPU.

(And most instructions correspond to 1 or a few uops in a straightforward way).

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Re:Can you tell an assembly language when you see one? by tux3 on Saturday April 24, 2021 @06:49AM (#26923909)
The ASM (text) that you write is converted into machine code, and that is directly accepted and decoded by the hardware (which may turn it into Mops and uops internally, but that's an implementation detail!)
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Re:Can you tell an assembly language when you see one? by zeckalpha on Saturday April 24, 2021 @06:43AM (#26923874)
Yes
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