• stingpie@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Hand written assembly is much more powerful than a turing-complete high level language because it lets you fuck up everything. Rust and python are way too wimpy to allow a user to destroy their computer.

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      3 months ago

      On the other hand you can’t really have UB in code written in asm.

      Just throwing that out there!

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        20 days ago

        could have instruction undefined behavior (eg, integer overflow wrap/saturate/trap/explode), and is different on different computers