assembly conversions

[JRS]

Another long shot but does your functions enable explicit locks?

[Brian Alvarez]

The OPEN statement does support the syntax for: 

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OPEN FILENAME fn$/HANDLE hn& FOR [BINARY/INPUT/OUTPUT/APPEND/RANDOM] [ACCESS READ/WRITE] [LOCK SHARED/READ/WRITE] [AS #FN] [LEN=recordsize] [BASE=base] [CHR= ANSI|WIDE]
 But i think i have not yet implemented the LEN functionality.

[JRS]

Brian,

Can you attach your PluriBASIC benchmark code to a post?

I would like to see what you are testing.

Thanks!

[Brian Alvarez]

 I cant. My code is disassebled (pun intended) at the moment. I found some neat tricks i need to implement and i am doing so. Assembly will end up being awesome.
I am at the moment chasing a miscompatibility with Oxygen 2.9, i should retake oxygen soon.

[JRS]

Let me know when you have a stable release of PluriBASIC to try.

[Brian Alvarez]

 I have one every full moon, but right now asm is dismantled and getting put together in a cool way.
I could make it work for this benchmark but i rather benchmark it with the full set of features.

 For example, did you know that in PB you can do...

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! mov esi, mylongvar
And...

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! mov esi, 2000
 And when you do this...

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! mov mylongvar, esi
 Will act differently depending on what you stored in ESI?

 If a literal value was stored in esi, the literal value will be read. if a variable was stored in it, the value stored in the variable whose address is stored in esi will be set to mylongvar.

That is one cool feature! but how can the assembly know if a variable address or a literal value is stored in esi? Well... thats a story for another day!

[JRS]

When I look at ASM all I see is Brainfuck code. 🥴

[Charles Pegge]

https://software.intel.com/content/www/us/en/develop/articles/intel-sdm.html

Volume 2 of the 4-volume set provides an A..Z description of all the x86 instructions and their addressing modes. Very detailed.

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'SOME ADDRESSING MODES
mov eax,2000 'immediate
mov eax,esi    'direct addressing
mov eax,[ebp] 'indirect addressing
mov eax,[ebp+4] ' indirect addressing with offset (used as variables)


[Brian Alvarez]

 WHat do you think of PowerBASIC's approach Charles?

[Charles Pegge]

It's based on standard Intel notation, but missing a few instructions, as I recall. I last used it about 14 years ago.

[JRS]

I haven't touched PowerBasic in over 20 years.

I felt Zale was a greedy con man.