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qwertyuiop924 on Nov 27, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Learning to Read X86 Assembly Language

The simple stuff's alright, but if you want to do anything performant, it gets hairy pretty fast, as you wade through almost 40 years of expansions and ugly hacks.

gtirloni on Nov 27, 2016 [–]

Could you elaborate in which situation you faced this issue?

qwertyuiop924 on Nov 28, 2016 | [–]

Trying to learn it, at least beyond the basics.

Maybe I'm crazy, and I'm definitely inexperienced. So maybe take my opinion with a grain of salt?

But yes, so far as I've seen, trying to understand x86 in its present state is a painful experience.

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