What does assembly language actually mean? Find out inside PCMag's comprehensive tech and computer-related encyclopedia.

This week, [Al Williams] wrote a great thought piece about whether or not it was worth learning an assembly language at all anymore, and when. The comments overflowed, and we’re surprised that ...

Assembly is the lowest level human-readable programming language. Today, it is used for precise control over the CPU and memory on the bare metal hardware of a computer. Learn the basics Assembly with ...

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 ...

You want to learn assembly language. After all, understanding assembly unlocks the ability to understand what compilers are doing and it is especially important for time-critical code.

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

An assembly language program It's easiest to grasp this concept through an example of a simple PDP-11 assembly language program, which we'll go through below.

Designing an Accessible Language Although the TIS-100 logline mentions assembly language programming, the language used in the game itself is not quite like any real assembly language.

Relogix/86 is designed to translate 32-bit x86 or Intel IA32 assembler code written for the flat memory model, and is aimed at both desktop and embedded applications. It can be used either to port ...

Randall Hyde has taught assembly language programming at the university level for more than a decade and his Web site, Webster: The Place on the Net to Learn Assembly Language Programming, is one of ...