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This is just one more turtle up. In college, I took a class where they taught us how to code in Assembler. I haven't looked at Assembler until this morning and here is a summary of my 5 minutes of work.

Here's an overview of what we've done:

1. *Created Assembly Code for Apple Silicon*: We wrote ARM64 assembly code specifically for your Apple M1 Max processor running macOS, rather than x86 assembly which wouldn't work on your architecture.

2. *Explained the Compilation Process*: We covered how to compile and link the code using the `as` assembler and `ld` linker with the proper flags for macOS on ARM64.

3. *Addressed Development Environment*: We confirmed that you don't need to install a separate assembler since it comes with Apple's Command Line Tools, and provided instructions on how to verify or install these tools.

4. *Optimized the Code*: We refined the code with better alignment for potential performance improvements, though noted that for a "Hello World" program, system call overhead is the main performance factor.

5. *Used macOS-Specific Syscalls*: The assembly code uses the appropriate syscall numbers and conventions specific to macOS on ARM64 architecture (syscalls 4 for write and 1 for exit).

This gives you a basic introduction to writing assembly directly for Apple Silicon, which is quite different from traditional x86 assembly programming.



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