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pekk on March 5, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Partial WebAssembly backend for the GNU toolchain

Intel x86 assembler is arguably not a nice API, but most of us are not working at that level any more.

The requirements for an instruction set aren't really the same as the requirements for a language well suited to writing, say, video poker games.

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