Game Development Patterns and Best Practices

Introducing the compiler

Once we have finished our code, we use a compiler to translate that high-level code into assembly, which in turn will get turned into machine language that our computer can execute. Afterwards, it will translate that program into an executable file that the user can run. Functionally, it looks something like this:

This has several advantages, as it provides abstraction from the hardware details. For example, we don't need to work directly with registers, memory, addresses, and so on anymore. It also makes our code portable in that we can use the same program and have it translated by different assemblers for the different ...