Assembly language is a human-readable representation of machine code. It uses mnemonics, symbols, and labels to describe the instructions and data that the processor can execute.

The lines starting with “//” are actually comments which contain the C language equivalent of what the assembly language is doing. As you can see this code sets a variable called i, which is ...

It is generally believed that hand-written assembly language code, though time consuming and requiring significant skill, will always yield the best result. This article questions that belief and ...

We all probably know that for ultimate control and maximum performance, you need assembly language. No matter how good your compiler is, you’ll almost always be able to do better by using you… ...

Assembly language. Earlier I mentioned that 0x0120 means “put 1 in register 0.” A register is a little pot which can hold a number, there are only a few (at most 64), so they can’t replace ...