Summary
This episode concludes the assembly language series by exploring how the same C++ code gets compiled to different instruction set architectures. Jason uses Compiler Explorer to compare x86 assembly (covered in previous episodes) with ARM, AVR, and MIPS assembly. He demonstrates how each architecture handles arithmetic operations differently, with ARM using shift operations combined with addition, AVR requiring more instructions for the same operations, and MIPS using numerical registers rather than named ones. The episode provides insight into how compilers adapt code generation strategies to match the capabilities of different CPU architectures.