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Seems like this would be about as informative as looking at the assembly code for Firefox.
by powrtoch 16y ago
Seems like this would be about as informative as looking at the assembly code for Firefox.
- burgerbrain 16y agoAnd if the browser industry were as big as the beverage industry, and if Firefox had the kind of advantage Coke has, I am sure people would be doing it.
- georgemcbay 16y agoYou forgot at least one "and": ...and if Firefox weren't open source. Why look at disassembled asm when you can download the C/C++ code?
- powrtoch 16y agoCome to think of it, I probably could have chosen a better example, as Firefox is open source...
- icefox 16y agoGiven the right amount of time looking at the assembly of firefox isn't an impossible way to find out what it is doing. A good counter example is the assembly of old nes games. I have read through some of them and you can even find nice commented versions of the main games source like mario, mario3, super mario etc. Reading the source is really eye opening. Some features in the game are very hard coded and fundamental to the code base changing it would be extremely hard. Other times you find fantastically elegant code. If anyone is interested in a treat go read the level loading asm for smb1.