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bajard • today at 3:52 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

Maybe I should say Compiler Explorer instead of Godbolt.

This should be mandatory for any programming environment, along with a CPU emulator showing how data moves through the ALU, and all the ports, to which registers it goes to, and how everything works clock by clock.

I hope AI makes this possible, at least for VS Code and C++.


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rpqt • today at 5:18 PM

Yeah there is so much to do on the visualization side! I know people who still draw these things on paper and count cycles by hand.

bee_rider • today at 6:24 PM

Modern cores are quite wide, I don’t know if my monitor is big enough to show this info for all the in-flight instructions…