Assembly programming: looking for advises

["Andrei A. Dergatchev" <A Dergatchev tn utwente nl>]

Hi there,

I'd like to hear if someone wants to advise me on the following:

I'm finally begining to code some of my ideas in integer math.
It's going to be an extensive pattern_recognition_like possibilities-
cruncher when values like N! are always behind, so an assembler
is my the only option, I suppose. I spent already quite some time
in Internet doing a search for examples but till the moment came
up with a little. I don't mind to learn by doing, however my task is
well defined and I thought it would be great if I'd find something
close. I'm very interested in this problem - I bought an 21164SX
with this purpose only. I read an archive of this mailing list and
looked at sites cited in
http://www.alphalinux.org/archives/high_perf/november1998/0012.html

Looked at http://shimizu-lab.et.u-tokai.ac.jp/indexe.html,
http://sag-www.ssl.berkeley.edu/~korpela/djgpp_asm.html,
http://bewoner.dma.be/JanW/eng.html to mention a few.

Assembly Language Programmer's Guide is very handy reference
but includes a little of a real code.

What I'll have to code is a program to deal with huge (having in mind
swapping on a whole HDD) arrays of 64-bit (to use Alpha strong side)
or smaller length elements.

I have considerable experience with C/Pascal/F77 but rarely used TASM
so as I don't see any special reasons to use NASM I plan to use GAS.

I would appreciate any response from experienced AXP community.

Regards,

Andrei Dergatchev
Applied Optics Group, Twente University, Netherlands