Ben Gilbert: commitment

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…Ben, are you about to program live on Acquired? Well, it’s pseudo assembly language code. The first line is we’re going to load the number two from memory. We’re going to fetch it out of memory and we’re going to load it into a register on the processor. Now, we’ve got the number two actually sitting right there on our CPU ready to do something with. That’s line of code number one. Two, we’re going to load the number three in exactly the same fashion into a second register. So we’ve got two CPU registers with two different numbers. The third line, we’re going to perform an add operation, which performs the arithmetic to add the two registers together on the CPU and store the value in some either third register or into one of those registers. That’s a more complex instruction since it’s arithmetic that we actually have to perform, but these are the things that CPUs are very good at. We’re doing math operations on data fetched from memory. Then the fourth and final line of code in our example is we are going to take that five that has just been computed and is currently held temporarily in a register on the CPU, and we are going to write that back to an address in memory. So the four lines of code are load, load, add, store. This all sounds familiar to me.…

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