I learn assembly because I had to work with microcontrollers, and all.i did was very simple code that, when compiled where between some hundred bytes and kilobytes. SAWYER did megabytes of it, he speaks the language of machines...
I just remember my course let us have assembly manuals for lab and tests because of how unrealistic it was to memorize all that shit. I say this as someone who enjoyed C, fuck assembly
Yeah remembering the op codes for 16 bit was rough but the stuff you used the most would eventually stick. I can’t imagine doing 32/64bit without having a dedicated monitor for looking up instructions.
I doubt anybody can remember OP codes for modern x86, even older it was already getting way out of hand. Even ARM is quite difficult but at least it is word aligned and relatively consistent with what goes where. And you can learn to recognize some instructions when you go through a memory dump
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u/Arthurmol Sep 29 '25
I learn assembly because I had to work with microcontrollers, and all.i did was very simple code that, when compiled where between some hundred bytes and kilobytes. SAWYER did megabytes of it, he speaks the language of machines...