alt Hacker News> Asm is simple enough that "mental execution" is far easier, if more tedious, than in HLLs
Ya totally I can also keep 32 registers, a memory file, and stack pointer all in my head at once ...fellow human... (In 2026 I might actually be an LLM in which I really can keep all that context in my "head"!)
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userbinator • today at 9:21 AM
8 registers are sufficient; if you forget what one holds, looking up at the previous write to it is enough.
Contrast this with trying to figure out all the nested implicit actions that a single line of some HLL like C++ will do.
there's an interesting new API skill for the human cortex v1.0, that allows for a much larger context window, it's called pen and paper.