Assembly language relies on language syntax, labels, operators, and directives to convert code into usable machine instruction. Assembly language may pass through single-pass or multi-pass ...

You might have heard the terms "assembly language" and "machine code" but what do they mean? Let's find out.

If you use assembler for performance, you MUST know in detail how the machine pipeline works and what instruction timing looks like. If you have a quad-issue machine and you don't know enough to ...