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Re:A forum engine written in Assembly by rahen on Sunday August 27, 2023 @06:45PM (#37287367)
I don't think so, modern high level languages tend to be linked to huge runtimes that are usually load entirely in memory. Assembly programs don't.
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Re:A forum engine written in Assembly by djur on Sunday August 27, 2023 @11:50PM (#37289512)
If you're not linking to those runtimes and system libraries you're reimplementing them. The functionality has to come from somewhere.
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Re:A forum engine written in Assembly by rahen on Monday August 28, 2023 @08:52AM (#37293190)
That's what assembly programmers do, they re-use code. They just don't need to ship huge runtimes to be then loaded into memory.
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