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Hmm - I don't see much people tinkering with machine code, even compiler bugs are rare and programmers don't normally need to understand what their compilers do
by zby 6y ago
Hmm - I don't see much people tinkering with machine code, even compiler bugs are rare and programmers don't normally need to understand what their compilers do.
- Frost1x 6y agoIf you're working with HPC applications, your choice of compilers and sometimes higher level specifications you may write in C, C++, or (gasp) Fortran often do demand you think about what your compilers are doing or choose compilers to think better for you. If you're fine with lower performance (which is reasonable for a lot of application cases, so I almost entirely agree with you), you certainly don't have to deal with this.
- pabs3 6y agoThese folks are working on bootstrapping a full Linux distribution solely from a small amount of machine code plus all the source code of the distribution: https://bootstrappable.org/ https://bootstrappable.org/