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McIntyre: Scanning for assembly code in Free Software packages

McIntyre: Scanning for assembly code in Free Software packages

Posted Apr 3, 2013 3:45 UTC (Wed) by rsidd (subscriber, #2582)
In reply to: McIntyre: Scanning for assembly code in Free Software packages by dlang
Parent article: McIntyre: Scanning for assembly code in Free Software packages

You are taking "incomprehensible" literally. No code is incomprehensible. But taking assembly code that takes an hour to understand, and replacing it with C code that takes 5 minutes to understand, is a win, especially if you are the maintainer (it may not be worth it if it's an obscure package and you're a distro packager).


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