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by AlexandrP 2387 days ago
> In this video I present a preliminary answer to the question "Why would anyone write Assembly Language?" by comparing identical minimalist functionality across 13 different languages. I compare Assembly Language, C, C++, Go, Rust, Python, Perl, TCL, Java, PHP, NodeJS, Ruby and Bash.

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Bash almost always faster than python, perl, ruby, java etc.