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Show HN: VisualMIPS – A cross-platform teaching tool for MIPS Assembly

#1

Post by jiantastic » Wed, Sep 26, 2018, 11:39 PM UTC

Show HN: VisualMIPS – A cross-platform teaching tool for MIPS Assembly
visualmips.github.io

Re: Show HN: VisualMIPS – A cross-platform teaching tool for MIPS Assembly

#2

Post by Immortalin » Thu, Sep 27, 2018, 2:33 AM UTC

Congrats on shipping! Add support for RISC-V too? Their designs are pretty similar.

Re: Show HN: VisualMIPS – A cross-platform teaching tool for MIPS Assembly

#3

Post by relyio » Thu, Sep 27, 2018, 3:14 AM UTC

Nice work, it's really neat.

Some feedback: the fact that you use integers to identify registers makes it harder to read, at least for me. I like being able to spot immediate values at glance.

You could supplement the homepage with a link to a MIPS reference sheet, in particular if you use your own subset.

Re: Show HN: VisualMIPS – A cross-platform teaching tool for MIPS Assembly

#4

Post by jiantastic » Thu, Sep 27, 2018, 5:08 AM UTC

Immortalin wrote: post #2

Congrats on shipping! Add support for RISC-V too? Their designs are pretty similar.

Thank you! Yeah definitely will work on that going forward.

Re: Show HN: VisualMIPS – A cross-platform teaching tool for MIPS Assembly

#5

Post by jiantastic » Thu, Sep 27, 2018, 5:08 AM UTC

relyio wrote: post #3

Nice work, it's really neat. Some feedback: the fact that you use integers to identify registers makes it harder to read, at least for me. I like being able to spot immediate values at glance. You could supplement the homepage with a link to a MIPS reference sheet, in particular if you use your own subset.

Thanks! The reference sheet is a good idea.