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Fasm, a F# to Jitted ASM/IL disassembler as a dotnet tool

114 points by aloisdg 5y ago

underdeserver 5y ago
FASM is overloaded: https://flatassembler.net/ https://flatassembler.net/ Since it's the same context I'd rather they didn't reuse the name.
- tux3 5y ago
  And another one: https://symbiflow.readthedocs.io/en/latest/fasm/docs/specification.html https://symbiflow.readthedocs.io/en/latest/fasm/docs/specifi...
- chalst 5y ago
  Agreed. 'Fshasm' would make the connection to F# clearer and avoid this confusion.
  - aloisdg 5y ago
    Fshasm is good idea and available on nuget (https://www.nuget.org/packages?q=Fshasm https://www.nuget.org/packages?q=Fshasm). We lost the author's wordplay though. I opened an issue on GitHub to talk about the name. Come join us :) https://github.com/d-edge/fasm/issues/5 https://github.com/d-edge/fasm/issues/5
  - meijer 5y ago
    Looks a bit too much like "fascism" for my taste.
    - chalst 5y ago
      The Levenstein distance to either "Fasm" or "Fshasm" are the same, at three. I don't think that's too close.
      - raegis 5y ago
        And the distance between "Levenstein" and "Levenshtein" is only one, so is this an OK misspelling? :)
    - poloopolo 5y ago
      As if you knew what that word means or as if there was any risk of confusion in this context.
- aloisdg 5y ago
  The name Fasm is a pun around the French word Phasme which translate to Phasmatodea in English and is coined with F(sharp) + asm (i.e assembly). Following this thread, I opened an issue about this: https://github.com/d-edge/fasm/issues/5 https://github.com/d-edge/fasm/issues/5
- nitia 5y ago
  Agreed. I prefer the other FASM too
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eggy 5y ago
I use FASM (https://flatassembler.net/ https://flatassembler.net/), and I have been learning F# for about five years, so this is very interesting to me. I am guessing it is more like NASM than MASM because of the square brackets in the animated GIF example? I am trying to figure out how I might find this useful. I am trying to do wavelet transforms in F# that I currently do in C or Julia, and this might be fun for some assembly optimizations if worth it over the C library, but I doubt it because of optimizations.
- aloisdg 5y ago
  Fasm is a dotnet tool running a watcher to observe what asm/il will be generated from a F# snippet. As an example of usage, its author use it to add an optimization in the F# compiler: https://github.com/dotnet/fsharp/pull/11414 https://github.com/dotnet/fsharp/pull/11414
tus89 5y ago
Does this compete with LLVM? Sounds similar.
sakesun 5y ago
Imagine if org-mode developers decide to make JIT or AOT to assembly.

114 points by aloisdg 5y ago

FASM is overloaded: https://flatassembler.net/ https://flatassembler.net/ Since it's the same context I'd rather they didn't reuse the name.

tux3 5y ago
And another one: https://symbiflow.readthedocs.io/en/latest/fasm/docs/specification.html https://symbiflow.readthedocs.io/en/latest/fasm/docs/specifi...
chalst 5y ago
Agreed. 'Fshasm' would make the connection to F# clearer and avoid this confusion.
- aloisdg 5y ago
  Fshasm is good idea and available on nuget (https://www.nuget.org/packages?q=Fshasm https://www.nuget.org/packages?q=Fshasm). We lost the author's wordplay though. I opened an issue on GitHub to talk about the name. Come join us :) https://github.com/d-edge/fasm/issues/5 https://github.com/d-edge/fasm/issues/5
- meijer 5y ago
  Looks a bit too much like "fascism" for my taste.
  - chalst 5y ago
    The Levenstein distance to either "Fasm" or "Fshasm" are the same, at three. I don't think that's too close.
    - raegis 5y ago
      And the distance between "Levenstein" and "Levenshtein" is only one, so is this an OK misspelling? :)
  - poloopolo 5y ago
    As if you knew what that word means or as if there was any risk of confusion in this context.
aloisdg 5y ago
The name Fasm is a pun around the French word Phasme which translate to Phasmatodea in English and is coined with F(sharp) + asm (i.e assembly). Following this thread, I opened an issue about this: https://github.com/d-edge/fasm/issues/5 https://github.com/d-edge/fasm/issues/5
nitia 5y ago
Agreed. I prefer the other FASM too
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eggy 5y ago

I use FASM (https://flatassembler.net/ https://flatassembler.net/), and I have been learning F# for about five years, so this is very interesting to me. I am guessing it is more like NASM than MASM because of the square brackets in the animated GIF example? I am trying to figure out how I might find this useful. I am trying to do wavelet transforms in F# that I currently do in C or Julia, and this might be fun for some assembly optimizations if worth it over the C library, but I doubt it because of optimizations.

aloisdg 5y ago
Fasm is a dotnet tool running a watcher to observe what asm/il will be generated from a F# snippet. As an example of usage, its author use it to add an optimization in the F# compiler: https://github.com/dotnet/fsharp/pull/11414 https://github.com/dotnet/fsharp/pull/11414

tus89 5y ago

Does this compete with LLVM? Sounds similar.

sakesun 5y ago

Imagine if org-mode developers decide to make JIT or AOT to assembly.