🎉🚀 Oh look, another 2026 masterpiece dissecting compiler optimisations like it's the Rosetta Stone of assembly language. 😴✨ Marvel at the thrilling saga of 'modular increments' and 'endianness conversions'—guaranteed to leave you as bewildered as a cat chasing its own tail. 📚🤦‍♂️
https://www.hmpcabral.com/2026/03/20/two-studies-in-compiler-optimisations/ #compileroptimizations #modularincrements #endiannessconversions #assemblylanguage #techhumor #HackerNews #ngated
Two studies in compiler optimisations · hmpc

A deep dive into the intricacies of the LLVM optimisation pipeline.

🤡 Oh, great, another epic tome on Rust's magical calling conventions, penned by the Pokémon-doodling compiler wizard himself! 🧙‍♂️ With 6,175 words of pure assembly sorcery, readers are bound to emerge fully enlightened—or just begging for mercy. 😂
https://mcyoung.xyz/2024/04/17/calling-convention/ #RustProgramming #AssemblyLanguage #CompilerWizard #PokémonDoodling #EpicTome #HackerNews #ngated
The Rust Calling Convention We Deserve · mcyoung

I finally got a machine with a disk drive, so I can run my old programming demos from when I was a teenager. Here’s an x86 real-mode 0x13 voxel landscape engine written in assembly and C, running on a 486 laptop. #retrocomputing #programming #c #assemblylanguage #software
How Michael Abrash doubled Quake framerate

Full-Blown Cross-Assembler…in A Bash Script

Have you ever dreamed of making a bash script that assembles Intel 8080 machine code? [Chris Smith] did exactly that when he created xa.sh, a cross-assembler written entirely in Bourne shell script…

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