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Ritesh Modi
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Ritesh Modi is a technologist with more than 18 years of experience. He holds a master's degree in science in AI/ML from LJMU. He has been recognized as a Microsoft Regional Director for his contributions to building tech communities, products, and services. He has published more than 10 tech books in the past and is a cloud architect, speaker, and leader who is popular for his contributions to data centers, Azure, Kubernetes, blockchain, cognitive services, DevOps, AI, and automation.
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An introduction to Solidity and its advantages

Assembly programming in Solidity is low-level programming in which we can use opcodes and work with them directly. There are many advantages to using assembly language while writing contracts. The major advantages include the following:

  • Added capability: There are a few things that can only be done using assembly programming in Solidity. Some of these capabilities are not available in Solidity grammar itself – for example, determining whether an address is a contract address can be ascertained in assembly but not in Solidity. It should be noted that Solidity developers are trying to minimize this gap in the newer versions of the language.
  • Optimization of gas usage: We can optimize code by writing assembly code because it has fewer instructions compared to Solidity compiler-generated code.
  • Having full control: Writing assembly language directly gives us more control over generated bytecode compared to the compiler...
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Ritesh Modi

Ritesh Modi is a technologist with more than 18 years of experience. He holds a master's degree in science in AI/ML from LJMU. He has been recognized as a Microsoft Regional Director for his contributions to building tech communities, products, and services. He has published more than 10 tech books in the past and is a cloud architect, speaker, and leader who is popular for his contributions to data centers, Azure, Kubernetes, blockchain, cognitive services, DevOps, AI, and automation.
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