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by jaggederest 1159 days ago
These days even binary instructions ignore the reality of the physical hardware, as far as I know (I make a javascript lol). The output of e.g. assembler is an instruction set for a virtual machine that doesn't exist, that the CPU translates into actual execution. At least on the intel superscalar side, ARM may be a simpler setup.