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assemblyrequired.crashworks.org is a personal blog at assemblyrequired.crashworks.org about programming and games. Since 2009, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

4mentions?
4HN people?
2009–2016first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 1 in 2009

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

Assembly Required covers the cost of CPU operations measured in clock cycles, aimed at assembly programmers. The one HN comment points to the post's references list, which cites Agner Fog and Intel optimization manuals.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

What Hacker News says?

  1. There is a "references" section at the bottom: [Agner4] Agner Fog, “Instruction tables. Lists of instruction latencies, throughputs and micro-operation breakdowns for Intel, AMD and VIA CPUs” [Agner3] Agner Fog, “The microarchitecture of Intel, AMD and VIA CPUs. An optimization guide for assembly programmers and compiler makers” [Intel.Skylake] “Intel® 64 and IA-32 Architectures Optimization Reference Manual”, 2-6,…

    Comment linking /how-slow-are-virtual-functions-really/

    on “Operation Costs in CPU Clock Cycles”
  2. Submitted Timing square root as a story · 37 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Forensic Debugging and Crash Analysis as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted “AI-Driven Dynamic Dialog” at GDC 2012 as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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