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[–] PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@lemmy.sdf.org 21 points 1 year ago (5 children)

What are you doing in assembly?

[–] herrvogel@lemmy.world 67 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Manually optimizing the code I wrote in C, so that it runs noticeably slower and has all sorts of stupid bugs that weren't there before. All in a good night's work.

[–] marcos@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Well, I guess it's either writing a device driver or that.

And the device driver will always end-up with most code in C or Rust.

[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 40 points 1 year ago
[–] guiguinofake@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago

Pretending I was born 40 years earlier

[–] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 year ago
[–] embed_me@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago

Doing vector operations because the MCU vendor didn't provide APIs for it.

(did not actually do that but was preparing to before we came to our senses and ditched that MCU)