Understanding 'Hello World'

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Starts from the Ruby one-liner "puts 'Hello, World!'" and traces exact behavior down to bytes and CPU: explains Unicode code points, UTF-8 byte encoding, and composite emoji, shows UTF-8 encoding steps; compiles Ruby to YARV bytecode and shows the four instructions sent to the VM; runs strace and compares ~1,200 syscalls from MRI startup to the 2 syscalls (write=1 and exit=60) made by a 64-bit Linux x86 assembly version; the assembly writes the string and exits successfully.

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1. 0:00Introduction and welcome
2. 1:02What is Hello World
3. 2:28Unicode and characters
4. 8:10UTF-8 encoding explained
5. 13:11Hello World in assembly
6. 17:46How computers run processes
7. 20:37System calls in Hello World
8. 22:21Tracing system calls
9. 24:06How MRI Ruby works
10. 28:25Summary and conclusion

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