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2012-01-12 , 14:39
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Originally Posted by tokafondo View Post
They can say "wait, you already can do that", but this time is different because this is native. Linux does get coded with x86 in mind and then ported to other platforms.
Linux gets coded with C in mind; yes, it gets compiled into x86 binaries first, because there just are a lot of x86 cpus out there, but the days of Linux being tied to any one specific architecture are long past. I can't think of any significant Linux product these days actually using any assembler code; you can get pretty good speed with properly written C, and being platform-independent is just too valuable to throw away.

There's a reason why you find Linux on everything from embedded devices to supercomputers...
 

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