Assembler is where you talk directly to the chip in your computer using its own instructions, without any higher order language 'getting in the way'.
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This means you can write very fast code, but it is much harder to read and therefore maintain.
Links
- ASM
- ARM Macro Assembler
- AS
- An ARM assembler
- ExtBASICasm
- Provides extra functionality to the BASIC assembler
- HeyRick
- A wealth of examples and explanations in all manner of assembler
- soup kitchen
- An online version of Matthew Bloch's ten part series he wrote on ARM assembler programming in Archimedes World