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david-gpuyesterday at 10:49 PM1 replyview on HN

Depending on the ISA, assembly is quite abstracted away from the actual underlying hardware, at least from the viewpoint of a computer architect. It depends on the ISA, of course.

Many common hardware features like out of order instruction issuing, register renaming, and even largely caching and segmentation, are largely or entirely hidden at the assembly level.


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leptonstoday at 1:20 AM

Maybe you missed the part where I described that not all CPUs work the same, not all have out of order instruction issuing, register renaming, or even any cache at all. OP was blanket talking about assembly, without realizing the many different kinds of CPUs out there, and apparently you're here cherry-picking too.

I have no interest in continuing this pointless internet interaction.