Lab 7 -- Putting It All Together

Due WEDNESDAY May 17 before 5:00 PM

This will be the final lab that uses the hardware machine. For this lab, we will put everything together and test our machine on a very simple program. Here is what you should do:

Write the function factorial in the assembly language of our machine.
Extend your machine with methods to: load the code for factorial in memory, and then execute it on any input.
Find out the biggest argument that you can give to factorial without getting into trouble (either getting the wrong answer, or running out of memory, or getting some other error).
Find out how long it takes to run factorial on that biggest argument.
Repeat the last step using Java and C. In other words, write the factorial function in both Java and C, run each version, and time it.

You should turn in:

your code for factorial in all three languages (assembly, C, and Java),
the classes that you modified,
the results of your timing experiments.

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