Why performance actually matters (but gets widely ignored), with Casey Muratori
He emphasizes that reading assembly language is essential for understanding hardware capabilities and avoiding architectural pitfalls like serial dependencies, which render later optimization impossible.summaryAssembly Language Utility: Reading assembly is not about writing it, but about understanding what the CPU is actually doing. It allows engineers to read hardware diagrams, understand cache/branch prediction behaviors, antakeaway“If you can vertically center a div in HTML, then you can probably learn assembly language.”quote
