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42. Inline assembly and Yul

When to drop to the metal.

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Yul gives direct access to EVM opcodes inside an `assembly` block. It is useful for reading arbitrary storage slots, cheap memory manipulation and proxy fallbacks — and it disables the compiler's safety checks.

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assembly {
    let v := sload(slot)
    mstore(0x00, v)
    return(0x00, 0x20)
}

Use it sparingly, comment every line, and keep a high-level reference implementation to test against.

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