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by i_k_k 899 days ago
When I was in college, I had to take an assembly language course. It was on MIPS: 32 registers.

One assignment said, roughly:

- Read ten numbers into an array.

- Sort the numbers into the array.

Nothing said I needed to read the array, so I read in the numbers, both to the array and registers, hardcoded a bubble sort on the registers, and wrote the result to the array. End of program.

I was being cute. I got full marks with a note to stop being cute.