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by baudehlo 2806 days ago
Take a course on compilers. It will teach you these things and give you a much more fundamental understanding.
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Seconded! Also play with assembly language for a small CPU, even in an emulator. Doing assembly in the 68k and Z80 really helped me grok computers. Even the old assembly makes super CPUs of today more understandable.