Assembly language is converted to machine language. For example, the assembly instruction compare a,b might be translated into the machine instruciton COMPARE the contents of bytes 32340-32350 ...

In assembly language “put 1 in register 0” is written like this: “movs r0, #1”. So when the assembler see a “movs” operation it can generate the right machine code, depending on the ...

The FFmpeg team recently announced a massive speed increase thanks to some newly patched code. The open-source project is now ...

I have only written assembly language for a handful of CPUs, and not much of it at that, but I’ve found the microcontrollers to be the friendliest. So if you want to dip your toes in that water ...

Next, instruction set extensions are detailed, which include Intel® Streaming SIMD Extensions (Intel® SSE) and Intel® Advanced Vector Extensions (Intel® AVX). The third section shows how to ...

A recent edition of [Babbage’s] The Chip Letter discusses the obscurity of assembly language. He points out, and I think correctly, that assembly language is more often read than written, yet… ...