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

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 Kromagv0 on Wednesday January 11 2017, @01:48PM

    by Kromagv0 (1825) on Wednesday January 11 2017, @01:48PM (#452487) Homepage

    Long before this there was the Visual 6502 [visual6502.org] that would let you do the same thing but would also show you what was happening in the processor.

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