I will need to look more into the examples and high- and low-level syntax later, but I basically want the assembler to be almost a 3. generation language. What I will do next is to revisit the instruction set to see if we can improve this a bit. Looking at the previous examples I get the following number of 16 bit instructions used:
| If example | 12 |
| For example | 8 |
| Assign example | 9 |
| While example | 15 |
| Loop example | 2 |
| Exit | 1 |
| Raise | 10 |
| Call | 10 |
| Return | 1 |
| Encode | 4 |
| Decode | 4 |
This is not exact math, but this was 21 lines of high level code that caused 76 x 16 bit entries in our instruction array – and ca 23 actual instructions. Using that as an indication we can expect as many instructions as we have code lines and an average of < 4 x 16 bit entries per code line.
This means that I can expect a 50 line program to be ca 200 entries in an instruction array (or 400 bytes if you like). I need to analyze an actual module with data and map usage to verify this. This number will improve since data and mapping don’t create instructions.