In fact, to compete with current compilers, the assembly language programmer needs to understand the concepts in Chapters 4 and 5 thoroughly (processor pipelining and memory hierarchy).

Let's beat the modern compilers !

Don't study from a textbook alone. Combine your textbook with your college course, as the course has many supplementary resources to help you learn.

People were once taught to use pointers in C to get greater efficiency than that available with arrays: “Use pointers, even if you can’t understand the code.” Modern optimizing compilers can produce code for the array version that is just as good.Most programmers today prefer that the compiler do the heavy lifting. As AI develops, we will only use natural language or brain-computer interfaces to command machines before 2030

2018/10/30: round 1

2023/10/19 - 11/6: round 2

2024/2/28: round 3

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I use the 2nd edition as my textbook

• 2024/9/3 16:10- 10/17 13:40: (page 102-190) Chapter 2: Instructions: language of the computer

(page 102)Surprisingly, it took me 1 hour and 30 minutes to manually compile a recursive C program to RISC-V code. Haha, interesting. Great, these questions got me interested in how compilers work!

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Reference:

Wondeful resources: https://github.com/OccupyMars2025/learn-riscv

2nd Edition Solution Manual

Solution Manual for RISC-V Edition

Solution to Appendix A

https://github.com/riscv/learn

https://github.com/TheThirdOne/rars

https://github.com/LC-John/RISCV-Simulator

online content(there is a verilog implementation of a RISC-V CPU, study it very carefully)

http://chinetti.me/classes/ece485/cd%20content/Advanced-Content-and-Appendixes.html

https://github.com/dmohindru/cod5e

https://www.studocu.com/ko/document/konkuk-university/%EC%BB%B4%ED%93%A8%ED%84%B0%EA%B5%AC%EC%A1%B0/computerorganizaion-design-5th-solution/9639022

TODO:

use verilog and chisel respectively to implement a RISC-V CPU to run xv6-riscv