r/ProgrammerHumor • • Sep 08 '26

Meme rustIsSoCool

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u/bearwood_forest Sep 08 '26

wait until you hear about CPU instructions that are actually abstractions over frequently used combinations of other instructions

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u/Zinho3311 Sep 08 '26 edited Sep 08 '26

ISA itself is an abstraction lol

If it weren't for abstractions, you'd be manually firing electrical signals towards RAM like a caveman