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Q8 - Experiment With Low Level Machine Code Programming in Your Browser

posted by on Wednesday January 11 2017, @03:31AM   Printer-friendly
from the assembly-made-easy dept.

randomerr writes:

Have you ever wondered what really goes on when your computer takes a higher-level language, like Javascript or C, and turns it into something it can read? Quine8 (Q8) is a simple virtual machine that takes the most basic building block a computer can operate on, bytecode and runs it at a fraction of the speed of a real CPU, allowing you to watch it run each step of the way.

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  • (Score: 2) by opinionated_science on Wednesday January 11 2017, @12:01PM

    by opinionated_science (4031) on Wednesday January 11 2017, @12:01PM (#452466)

    this. I rarely write assembler, but in science getting the absolute best performance is often required...

    I worked on some GCC/GPU stuff last year, where getting the assembler proved to be important for the diagnosing the (incorrect) maths!

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