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Well, all I can say about that is that I read through the MMIX supplement and did a bunch of the exercises, and I know have enough knowledge to vaguely understa
by disgruntledphd2 6y ago
Well, all I can say about that is that I read through the MMIX supplement and did a bunch of the exercises, and I know have enough knowledge to vaguely understand assembly.
It hasn't been massively useful to me in my professional life (I'm a data scientist), but it definitely has helped me to gain a deeper appreciation of how computing works.
- astrange 6y agoBy practical I meant it's hard to implement in hardware. As far as I know it's easy to learn, having register windows is just kind of weird.
- disgruntledphd2 6y agoAh OK. I guess that makes sense (especially as Knuth implemented its interpreter in C, as documented in MMIXware).