6UNDER THE C: DIVING INTO ASSEMBLY
Under the C, under the C Don’t you know it’s better Dealing with registers And assembly?—Sebastian, probably
Prior to the invention of the compiler in the early days of computing, many programmers coded in assembly language, which directly specifies the set of instructions that a computer follows during execution. Assembly language is the closest a programmer gets to coding at the machine level without writing code directly in 1s and 0s, and is a readable form of machine code. To write efficient assembly code, programmers must intimately understand the operation of the underlying machine architecture.
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