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The further from the metal you are the harder it will become to do even the most simple of things. In this case, the code will be "compiled" up to ten times before it hits the metal. And every time some information will be lost, and unnecessary extra instructions will be added. / Debbie Downer



>The further from the metal you are the harder it will become to do even the most simple of things

>And every time some information will be lost

Maybe from an embedded systems/OS point-of-view, but these statements are just not true on the web.


The last time I wrote an ALU was ~4 years ago when I did NAND to Tetris and whilst that was fun I can't say that it was simple! (:




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