Achieve multi-threading in MIPS assembly

Achieve multi-threading in MIPS assembly

[Chaturvedi, Akash]

Greetings All,


I am writing MIPS assembly code for a 'Word guessing game'. I want to play a background music in the game at the time user plays. I am using MARS emulator for running and testing my code.


As I need to do two task at the same time (game instructions and play music). Can someone please help me in achieving multi-threading using MIPS instructions (Like pthread_create in C). Or if there another way I can do two task simultaneously in MIPS assembly.


Thanks,
Akash
UT Dallas
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Achieve multi-threading in MIPS assembly

[Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu]

On Tue, 21 Apr 2015 01:05:19 -0000, "Chaturvedi, Akash" said:

> I am writing MIPS assembly code for a 'Word guessing game'.

Why?

gcc -O2 will almost certainly generate faster code than you can (unless you're
*really* good at MIPS assembler, in which case you wouldn't have posted).
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Achieve multi-threading in MIPS assembly

[John de la Garza]

On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 09:52:26PM -0400, Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Apr 2015 01:05:19 -0000, "Chaturvedi, Akash" said:
> 
> > I am writing MIPS assembly code for a 'Word guessing game'.
> 
> Why?
> 
> gcc -O2 will almost certainly generate faster code than you can (unless you're
> *really* good at MIPS assembler, in which case you wouldn't have posted).

This is a common response to questions like this (questions asking
about assembly language).  Learning assembly can be fun.  When I read
this question, my first thought was 'cool, someone is learning assembly
language'.  Then I wondered how this is related to the topic of this list.

I see two camps.  One says don't bother to learn assembly because a compiler
is usually better.  The other says, learning assembly language will help
you be a better programming in general.

I have always been curious about assembly language.  Taking a few months
and writing a bunch of programs in assembly then seeing how others did
it was really an overall good thing.

Assembly language seemed like magic to me for many years.