• pivot_root@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Haha, what is this, the 90s?

    Assembled instructions aren’t even the lowest non-hardware stage in instruction execution. There’s proprietary microcode sitting a level below your typical x86 ISA.

    And even then, what if… God forbid, the hardware has errata…

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      1 year ago

      🙈🙉🙊

      I know, but I didn’t want to scare the children.

      I also choose to pretend it’s just little gnomes moving the bytes around. Less magic.