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by 2-718-281-828 1036 days ago
> but who are these people who are so comfortable with disassembling a high level language binary, reading assembly, and then making statements about branch prediction and other such low level esoterica?

i don't see any assembly here. the analysis is done by using a profiler. a very common tool available for most programming languages.

https://timotijhof.net/wp-content/uploads/2020_profiling_fig...