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The vast majority of developers will never even see assembly for x86 or ARM. Compiler developers and those need to hand optimize code may care but for everyone

• mhh__ 5y ago
  Sure but I am part of that latter category. The unwashed masses don't have to care and won't actually use the performance, I'm not that bothered whether they care or not, although it's worth saying that X86 is such a mess that hiding instructions at weird alignments is a valid obfuscation technique - i.e. it's not just aesthetics/performance.
  • LMYahooTFY 5y ago
    Are there any easily digestible resources you could point to for getting a better grasp of this?
    • mhh__ 5y ago
      What in particular?
    • fragmede 5y ago
      https://microcorruption.com/login https://microcorruption.com/login might be one place to start, but it's got a slightly different focus, but if you broadly want to learn lower-level stuff it's a place to start.
  • doctor_eval 5y ago
    I’m not part of the category you’re part of - but after learning 6502, Z80 and 68K, when it came time to look at the 80x86 I gave it a hard pass and learned C instead. I kinda assumed x86 would die a natural death. Wrong! Sadly I have not programmed in assembly since, and I put it down to how ugly the ISA was. Pretty stupid perhaps, but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯