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Jeff Overbey
Personal blog · blog.jeff.over.bzprogrammingsystems
Jeff Overbey writes 256LOL, a personal blog at blog.jeff.over.bz about programming and systems. Since 2019, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “An x86 Assembler in 256 LOC (2017)”. The last post was in 2018, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Jeff Overbey's blog for its assembly and compiler posts, including an x86 assembler in 256 lines of code and a JIT-related follow-up. One commenter points readers to the follow-ups on testing and executing the assembler's output.
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.
Most-linked posts?
- An x86 Assembler in 256 LOC (2017)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-05-27
What Hacker News says?
Do read out the follow-up post on testing the code: http://blog.jeff.over.bz/assembly/2017/02/15/finding-machine... And then how to execute the binary which is output from the assembler: http://blog.jeff.over.bz/assembly/compilers/jit/2017/03/30/e...
Comment linking /assembly/compilers/jit/2017/03/30/executing-dynamically-generated-machine-code.html
on “An x86 Assembler in 256 LOC (2017)”Submitted An x86 Assembler in 256 LOC (2017) as a story · 185 points
HN discussionSubmitted 256LOL – An x86 Assembler in 256 LOC (2017) as a story · 2 points
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