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A comment on Introduction to MIPS assembly language (2007).

Re:Introduction to MIPS assembly language (2007) by ticktocktick on Saturday April 19, 2014 @03:25PM (#7614414)
MIPS was fun to learn. Its instruction set is not nearly as gnarly as x86 or ARM.
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Re:Introduction to MIPS assembly language (2007) by mikevm on Saturday April 19, 2014 @04:19PM (#7614580)
Probably because it's not as popular. Given enough popularity, anything will start deviating from its originally clean and pure design and turn into a monstrosity...
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Re:Introduction to MIPS assembly language (2007) by tptacek on Saturday April 19, 2014 @06:10PM (#7614908)
Give me variable-length instruction prefixes over delay slots and SETHI/ADDLO any day.
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