[userforgotten]

Hi; I know I have to multiply a register's value by 4, then add it to the address of an array to get the address of the [register's value]th element. We were taught to do the multiplication this way:

add $t0, $t0, $t0
add $t0, $t0, $t0

($t0 stores the # of the element)

However, my professor insists that we write code using as few instructions as possible. Thus, could I change the above two lines to:

sll $t0, $t0, 2

[blackcompe]

Well, you could of just ran the code to confirm the answer to your question, but yes that would work. Shifting a binary string to the left is the same as multiplying it by 2. Shifting to the right, divides by 2. Alternatively, you could have a mult instruction, but that's actually more work.

This post has been edited by blackcompe: 06 February 2013 - 10:24 PM

[userforgotten]

Ok, thanks.