When you say that it is faster to program in Assembly do you mean it is faster to make or it runs faster because of how it is set up.
When you say that it is faster to program in Assembly do you mean it is faster to make or it runs faster because of how it is set up.
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Obviously you haven't read the threads closely. Here's a small assembly program from one of my classes. It takes more time to program in assembly but the speed of the program itself can be reduced if done properly.
Code:;;Program that prompts for user to enter two signed numbers. Prompts user to ;;select and operation to do to the numbers Add, subtract, multiply or divide ;;Calculates and displays the result of the selected option INCLUDE PCMAC.INC .MODEL SMALL .STACK 100h CR EQU 13 LF EQU 10 ENDSTR EQU '$' .DATA Msg1 DB 'Enter the first number: ', ENDSTR Msg2 DB 'Enter the second number: ', ENDSTR Msg3 DB 'Do you want to add, subtract, multiply or divide?', ENDSTR Msg4 DB '(Enter A,S,M or D): ', ENDSTR Msg5 DB 'The Product is: ', ENDSTR Msg6 DB 'The Sum is: ', ENDSTR Msg7 DB 'The Difference is: ', ENDSTR Msg8 DB 'The Dividend is: ', ENDSTR Msg9 DB 'The Remainder is: ', ENDSTR NUM1 DW ? ;;variable that holds the first number NUM2 DW ? ;;variable that holds the second number CHOICE DB ? ;;holds user's choice REMAIN DW ? ;;holds the remainder from division .CODE EXTRN GetDec : NEAR, PutDec : NEAR A5 PROC mov ax, @DATA mov ds, ax _PutStr Msg1 ;;displays prompt to get first number call GetDec mov Num1, ax ;;saves first number as NUM1 _PutStr Msg2 ;;displays prompt to get second number call GetDec mov Num2, ax ;;saves second number as NUM2 mov bx, NUM2 ;;puts NUM2 into bx for arthimetic for entire program _PutCh LF _PutStr Msg3 ;;Prompts user to enter their selection _PutStr Msg4 ;; A, S, M or D _GetCh Echo mov CHOICE, al ;;saves user's choice as CHOICE _PutCh LF, LF, CR mov al, CHOICE cmp al, 53h ;;compares CHOICE for subtraction option je SUBTRACT cmp al, 41h ;;compares CHOICE for addition option je ADDIT cmp al, 4Dh ;;compares CHOICE for multiplication option je MULTIPLY ;;falls through to division if no jump ;;---------------------Division Option----------------------------- _PutStr Msg8 ;;outputs string to display quotient mov ax, NUM1 cwd idiv bx ;;divides NUM1 by NUM2 mov REMAIN, dx ;;saves remainder in REMAIN call PutDec ;;displays quotient _PutCh LF, CR _PutStr Msg9 ;;outputs string to display remainder mov ax, REMAIN call PutDec ;;displays remainder jmp DONE ;;jumps to end of program ;;---------------------Addition Option------------------------------ ADDIT: _PutStr Msg6 ;;outputs string to display sum mov ax, NUM1 add ax,bx ;;adds NUM2 to NUM1 call PutDec ;;outputs sum jmp DONE ;;jumps to end of program ;;-------------------------Subtraction Option----------------------- SUBTRACT: _PutStr Msg7 ;;outputs string to display difference mov ax, NUM1 sub ax, bx ;;subtracts NUM2 from NUM1 call PutDec ;;outputs difference jmp DONE ;;jumps to end of program ;;----------------------------Multiplication Option----------------- MULTIPLY: _PutStr Msg5 ;;outputs string to display product mov ax, NUM1 imul bx ;;multiplies NUM1 by NUM2 call PutDec ;;outputs product DONE: _EXIT 0 A5 ENDP END A5
If a tree falls in the forest, and no one is around to see it, do the other trees make fun of it?
Wow, I've never seen assembly and I understood most of that. Yes I know there were comments, but I didn't actually read them. Who does?
Assembly Language and machine code are two (2) different things. Assembly is a language, just like 'C' is a language. It is a higher-level representation of machine code. C is a higher-level representation of Assembly.
Assembly is the language you write code in, when working with an Assembler. It allows you to have labels, to name functions, to access API functions via name, and to have variables by names, rather than RAM offsets.
'Machine' code is the object itself. Actual binary. If you were to see a hex coredump-- you'd be looking at machine code. Nobody writes in machine code (like maybe 1% of the folks on _old_ systems might still have to do it for DoD and governmental projects for bootstrap loaders, or such).
The reason game programmers use more assembly than the average programmer, is because in games, cycle times count-- you want to get every erg of energy out of the processor, and the most effecient way to do that is to use assembly judiciously to improve frame rates.
No compiler can currently beat an expert professional assembly programmer at optimization. A compiler has _no idea_ what the programmer is trying to do-- it just pulls snippets in from libraries and binds them together. So a compiler's code tends to be slightly generic by nature.
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I recommend that all C/C++ programmers try to learn enough assembly that they can write stubs or snippets as necessary. Not only will this dramatically improve your ability to debug your higher-level code, but it will also open your eyes to many things about how a computer works, how your software runs, how the O/S works--- all things that a professional programmer learns.
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Understanding how things work, lets you overcome seemingly otherwise insurmountable obstacles. For example, let's say you created an interrupt to a callback function. But while in that callback function, you can't access your global variables or created variables at all, and yet you need to allocate variables so that you can do the work)-- how could you do this?
If it were me, I would take the queue element structure, an O/S structure, resize it by 32-bits, and store the pointer to a RAMblock in those newly acquired bytes. The RAMblock would be a structure containing enough space for my callback's variables. Then I'd set the rest of the interrupt up and be on my way.
Then when the interrupt fired and the callback got called, I could use a little assembly language on entry to my callback to recover the address of the queue element structure that my interrupt process hangs off of. I could then reclaim that pointer, and be able to access variables from within my callback.
what can I say, I live this stuff everyday.
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Seeing as how I am currently just trying to start learning C I took 1 look at that code in Assebly then at the clock and realized I had been staring for quite some time...
Anyways that was quite possibly the most confusing thing I have ever seen(sorry to say).
This gave me another question though, you said that if you can program in C and C++ then you should learn enough assebly to make snippets of code. Then how do you insert or use these "snippets"?
Do you simply insert them like say a library or what??
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The actual insertion depends on the compiler, however most of them will use an
Code:asm{ //assembly here} //or _asm{ //assembly here} //or __asm{ //assembly here}
Ok so you just basically put them in as you would javascript in HTML, that is seems simple enough as soon as I learn more about C's language and grammar(man I thought programming with one language would be hard, what about putting in like 3 or 4 others, I guess I am going to be doing a lot of reading
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