A programming language that is one step away from machine language. Each assembly language statement is translated into a machine instruction by the assembler. Programmers must be well versed in ...

Assembly language relies on language syntax, labels, operators, and directives to convert code into usable machine instruction.

New tools targeted at assembly language programmers, such as HLA, RadASM (an integrated development environment) and OllyDbg (a machine language debugger), are slowly providing the advanced ...

See assembly language, compiler and interpreter. Machine languages differ substantially. What may take one instruction in one machine can take 10 instructions in another. See RISC. What and Where ...

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 ...

For those who know about computer programming languages, assembly language is only one step removed from a CPU's native machine code, so it's difficult to learn as it requires an understanding of ...