alt Hacker NewsYou don't, but it's so much cooler when you do! Not everything needs to be a beige utilitarian module optimized for business consumption.
I didn't need to implement an Intel RDRAND streamer in C and assembler, but it was a ton of fun: https://github.com/ehbar/rdrand-stream
OP, I really liked this project. Kudos for publishing it!
Woah, that's really cool! I'm glad you did that even if you didn't need to. I honestly think everyone needs to write more assembly, because it's so much cooler.