Do you review and understand every byte of machine code being generated by your compiler? Do you understand all the implications of how it could interact with the underlying hardware, pipelining and prediction, etc?
Maybe you do, but most of our industry doesn't and hasn't for decades. Isn't this just the next step up the ladder of abstraction?
Maybe you do, but most of our industry doesn't and hasn't for decades. Isn't this just the next step up the ladder of abstraction?