in reply to Re^3: Assembly language
in thread Assembly language

I've heard many times that the op tree is only almost an AST and the run time engine is only almost a VM.

One says that's because a lot of external stuff was hooked into it and some state conditions are not intrinsic.

Cheers Rolf
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