Sorry for the stupid title, I couldn't fit my whole question in it :p

My question regards the following, one could do this:


or this:


Is there any real difference in between the two lines?; I mean obviously 0A is hex for 10, but what's happening in the background when FASM compiles the line?, is the base10 number in the first example converted to hex?, if so, using hex would ensure faster compilation times?, if I'm off please, PLEASE explain me!, I need to learn this

Thanks!

ADD EAX, 0A is incorrect. You have to write like this: 0xA or 0AH to present hex numbers. then 10 will be 10, and 10H will be 16.

I can't use AD... Never even heard of it. Must've been a typo on some one's part.

My bad, I meant ADD and also forgot the H - My question still unanswered though

there is no difference between ADD EAX,10 and ADD EAX,0Ah - it has sense only on prefered readability.

say, if you think about ASC codes of digits, 35h is more clear then 53 as ASCII code of "5", and 0Fh is more clear as mask for lower 4 bits, but if you wish to add 10 - it may appear 10 better then 0Ah, as it is more easy to find "10" in the text then "0A" if you are thinking about "10"

Alright then theres no other difference than readability.

I thought there were some conversions going on during compile time...

Well, obviously the conversion is from ASCII to binary, and hex ASCII to binary is faster. Writing all in hex will give you an unnoticable speedup at compilation and the execution time of the program will be the same no matter what number base you have used for your inmmediate operands.