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Who's Afraid Of Compilers?

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Compilers Will Run More Efficiently if You Write Your Source Code

If you write a compiler that translates a high-level language like Java script into x86 assembly code, you learn how the computer works. You find out what goes into an executable file and which data does not go into it. Those kinds of insights might help you write better code, right? If you know what's going on under the hood, so to speak, you can write your code to be better tailored to those lower-level instructions.

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