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Re: Emacs history, and "Is Emacs difficult to learn?"
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Rustom Mody |
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Re: Emacs history, and "Is Emacs difficult to learn?" |
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Thu, 1 Aug 2013 09:08:37 -0700 (PDT) |
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On Thursday, August 1, 2013 9:12:45 PM UTC+5:30, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> It goes even further back: assembly is better than raw machine code
> because it doesn't let you see the raw byte encoding of your
> instructions (which prevents you from jumping in the middle of an
> instruction, even though that can be useful when trying to shave off
> a few bytes).
Not sure how to parse that:
a. If you are saying having access to the encoding of instructions can
sometimes help one to choose more intelligently than a software like an
assembler, yeah along with clock-counting, Ive enjoyed that passtime.
b. If you are saying jumping into the middle of an instruction can be useful,
well I confess this is beyond my ken. For one I believe that in assembly alone
with arithmetic on the location-counter that should be possible. On the other
hand I dont know how to do that without getting into undefined instruction
issues.
- Re: Emacs history, and "Is Emacs difficult to learn?", Emanuel Berg, 2013/08/01
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