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Hello World using 6 different methods in Assembly Language for Raspberry Pi

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ksaj·May 12, 2020

A couple years ago I wrote Hello World in assembly language for Raspberry Pi using 6 entirely different methods, with the code kept as similar as possible so the differences between the methods are easier to compare. https://github.com/ksaj/helloworld

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ksaj·Apr 26, 2020

I would compile the C code with the -S option to output your C code as assembler, and then compare them to see what decisions were made by the (pre)compiler that made the compiled C code run faster than your hand-wrung code. The code is short enough that you should be able to relate the different parts and easily see the "improvements". This is how I learned to program assembler for Linux. I already knew TASM / MASM / a86 assembler languages for DOS/Windows - all similar but different in their own regards - but gas is a different un-backward beast, and of course the system calls are totally different between Linux and DOS/Windows. For example, here are 6 different ways to program helloworld on an ARM cpu (Raspberry Pi) running Raspbian Linux: https://github.com/ksaj/helloworld I kept each of them as close to the same as possible, so that

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it is easy enough to see the differences in how each call is set up before execution. I'm sure if you added timer code before and after the example code, you'd very quickly discover which methods are more optimal and then begin to dissect why that would be, and how to use that knowledge in future programs. Keep in mind that the order of opcodes will impact execution speed, because of the many techniques modern cpus use to speed things up (branching, prediction, encoding techniques, entirely rewriting opcodes to something else with the same functionality - eg, most compilers understand that mov ax,0, sub ax,ax and xor ax,ax all do the same thing), etc.

In I translated a simple C program to x86_64 and it was slower