It’s handwritten assembly as opposed to bytecode generated by a compiler, from handwritten higher level language.
AOCapitulator@hexbear.net 1 week ago
Hand written is impressive? I thought all code was hand written until AI
dev_null@lemmy.ml 1 week ago
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
Well these days hardly anyone bothers with assembly
BrikoX@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
It’s about code optimization and efficiency. Most assembly code these days just relies on compilers for optimization as hand optimizing is extremely time-consuming work.
propter_hog@hexbear.net 1 week ago
To add to this, it’s also very easy and very likely to write assembly that has zero speedup or even significant slowdown versus what the compiler will write.