Editing Vector processor (section)

==== Scalar assembler ====

The scalar version of this would load one of each of x and y, process one calculation, store one result, and loop:

<syntaxhighlight lang=gas>
loop:
  load32  r1, x      ; load one 32bit data
  load32  r2, y
  mul32   r1, a, r1  ; r1 := r1 * a
  add32   r3, r1, r2 ; r3 := r1 + r2
  store32 r3, y
  addl    x, x, $4   ; x := x + 4
  addl    y, y, $4
  subl    n, n, $1   ; n := n - 1
  jgz     n, loop    ; loop back if n > 0
out:
  ret
</syntaxhighlight>

The STAR-like code remains concise, but because the STAR-100's vectorisation was by design based around memory accesses, an extra slot of memory is now required to process the information. Two times the latency is also needed due to the extra requirement of memory access.

<syntaxhighlight lang=gas>
  ; Assume tmp is pre-allocated
  vmul tmp, a, x, n ; tmp[i] = a * x[i]
  vadd y, y, tmp, n ; y[i] = y[i] + tmp[i]
  ret
</syntaxhighlight>