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Exactly. A MOV is reduced to a register rename. An intelligent compiler can rewrite multiply/divide by 2 as shifts if it makes sense, etc. "Assembly is not a l
by bayindirh 2y ago
Exactly. A MOV is reduced to a register rename. An intelligent compiler can rewrite multiply/divide by 2 as shifts if it makes sense, etc.
"Assembly is not a low level language" is my favorite take, and with microcode and all the magic inside the CPU, it becomes higher level at every iteration.