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| | As hardware gets faster and more capable, software keeps getting slower. It is remarkable how inefficiently typical apps use the capabilities of modern processors! Often this means an app is doing only one thing at a time when it could do multiple things simultaneously, even on a single thread. This article explores a technique for...
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| [AI summary] The article provides an in-depth exploration of computer architecture and assembly language, focusing on the RISC-V Instruction Set Architecture (ISA). It covers fundamental concepts such as machine words, registers, and the role of assembly language as a human-readable representation of machine instructions. The text explains how programs are structured using instructions, labels, and directives, and categorizes instructions into arithmetic, memory, control flow, and miscellaneous types. It also delves into the calling convention, which defines how functions are called and how data is passed between them, and highlights the importance of maintaining the call stack illusion. The article further discusses the practical implications of these conce...