Re: Algorithms In Assembly Language

On Apr 28, 4:50 pm, "Wolfgang Kern" <nowh...@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
Brian asked:

What would an algorithm look like in assembly language?

Mmh..?
I think it will look like as in any other language, just
as a sequence of instructions, perhaps with conditional jumps
or 'cmovcc/setcc' and loops instead of  FOR/IF/WHILE/CASE...

Sure, ASM isn't that easy readable like plain text for many
'programmers'.
But it's just a matter of familiarity and experience.
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wolfgang

Have a look at Knuth's book on programming.
There he uses an algorithmic language closely related to assembler in
order to count cyles for efficiency.

Otherwise try to find something on ALGOL, a popular 1960's algorithmic
near-fortran
.

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