NiHaDuncan@lemmy.worldtoProgramming@programming.dev•Linus Torvalds Takes On A Performance Patch: "I Relax By Playing With Inline Assembly"English
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1 year agoHe says this because he kind of ignorantly (his own wordage) wrote in machine code for quite some time before realizing assembly was a thing. So for Linus inline assembly is to machine code as python is to c for a lot of us.
Thanks for this, I didn’t know people thought that nuclear-proof meant that it could literally take a nuke. I certainly hope people haven’t been thinking that a MOPP suit will make one a super soldier impervious to nukes or anything considered a chemical (which could be interpreted as all matter).