It’s handwritten assembly as opposed to bytecode generated by a compiler, from handwritten higher level language.
AOCapitulator@hexbear.net 10 months ago
Hand written is impressive? I thought all code was hand written until AI
dev_null@lemmy.ml 10 months ago
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
Well these days hardly anyone bothers with assembly
BrikoX@lemmy.zip 10 months 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 10 months 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.