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 # hack-assembler
-Hack machine language assembler
+Hack machine language assembler, as specified in [nand2tetris project 6](https://www.nand2tetris.org/project06).<br>
+It also features syntax checking, and is extremely fast (about 10x faster than the reference implementation).