Assembly Nights
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Assembly Nights
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#2Great article. Good starting for a self learning project.
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#3So, firstly, I’m amazed anyone can do that in bed and then sleep properly. I’d be dreaming in assembly all night.
When the author talked about reading the entire GNU Screen manual I did think “this sounds like stressful overkill” for a personal project, but I see their point about focusing on process rather than goal.
Does it ever really matter than personal projects don’t get finished?
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#4So, firstly, I’m amazed anyone can do that in bed and then sleep properly. I’d be dreaming in assembly all night. When the author talked about reading the entire GNU Screen manual I did think “this sounds like stressful overkill” for a personal project, but I see their point about focusing on process rather than goal. Does it ever really matter than personal projects don’t get finished?
I also absolutely do not allow myself to learn new things before going to sleep otherwise I will be thinking and dreaming about it in a kind of sick way. This is specially harmful on week days where it disrupts my sleep. Sleep is essential for my well being and professional ability.
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#5I recently started manually writing assembly with focus AVX2 (a flavor of Intel SIMD extensions). The rationale is that these are complex enough that compilers do not always notice the opportunity to use them, so my ultimate goal is to apply this is to find a non-artificial problem where I could beat a compiler :-)
I confirm that its one of the most satisfactory ways to add some numbers using a modern computer.
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#6Kinda agree with the "intel vs atnt" argument. From my very limited exp in asm reading Intel is always easier.
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#7So, firstly, I’m amazed anyone can do that in bed and then sleep properly. I’d be dreaming in assembly all night. When the author talked about reading the entire GNU Screen manual I did think “this sounds like stressful overkill” for a personal project, but I see their point about focusing on process rather than goal. Does it ever really matter than personal projects don’t get finished?
Same boat. Exercising my brain before sleep basically means I'll sleep very late because I just have to figure it out or figure out that I can't figure it out in a few hours. The author seems to possess some super human power to cool down whenever he wants, or he is super good with assembly.
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#8I recently started manually writing assembly with focus AVX2 (a flavor of Intel SIMD extensions). The rationale is that these are complex enough that compilers do not always notice the opportunity to use them, so my ultimate goal is to apply this is to find a non-artificial problem where I could beat a compiler :-) I confirm that its one of the most satisfactory ways to add some numbers using a modern computer.
Would you maybe be able to share some of the learning resources you’ve been using? I’ve really been wanting to get into this! :)
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#9Kinda agree with the "intel vs atnt" argument. From my very limited exp in asm reading Intel is always easier.
Porting the output generator from my toy compiler into AT&T syntax to only depend on GAS back when its Intel support still wasn't that good was a lesson in never doing it again.
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#10So, firstly, I’m amazed anyone can do that in bed and then sleep properly. I’d be dreaming in assembly all night. When the author talked about reading the entire GNU Screen manual I did think “this sounds like stressful overkill” for a personal project, but I see their point about focusing on process rather than goal. Does it ever really matter than personal projects don’t get finished?
Same boat. Exercising my brain before sleep basically means I'll sleep very late because I just have to figure it out or figure out that I can't figure it out in a few hours. The author seems to possess some super human power to cool down whenever he wants, or he is super good with assembly.
Ya same here, if I dive into some programming task it usually delays my sleep by 2 hours at least. I've had to avoid it for my health.