Re: if X in 1..35000 versus Boolean

[Darren New <dnew@san.rr.com>]

Jan Prazak wrote:
> But I am programming in a high-level language, so there is mostly no need
> to know anything about Assembler, but it could help sometimes, of course.

It's probably a good idea to learn (eventually) at least one fairly simple
assembler/machine language. Something like a 68000, 8080, or one of the
older machines where the machine code was designed to be comprehensible to
mere mortals. Even tho there's a lot of new stuff going on, it'll help you
understand what a base pointer is, what a stack is, what an exception is,
and so on. Especially when you start getting into questions of "is this
efficient" and such.

Of course, moving on to processors that can implement virtual memory and
multi-user programming would help in most cases too.

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