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		seanw444 44 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Is Rust faster than C? Assembly itself is an abstraction. UNIX should have been written in machine code.

pjmlp 44 days ago [–]

It was until version 4, when the C rewrite took place as it wasn't fun to keep writing it in Assembly.

seanw444 44 days ago | [–]

Assembly code != machine code

pjmlp 44 days ago | | [–]

Depends if you have an Assembler at hand, or a plain hexdump monitor, hopefully with a checksum entry on each row.

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