in x86 assembly it matters because what is comparison exactly? cmp is (very cleverly) defined as equivalent to sub (subtraction) without storing the result, onl

in x86 assembly it matters because what is comparison exactly? cmp is (very cleverly) defined as equivalent to sub (subtraction) without storing the result, only setting the flags. the jump if greater/lesser/equal/greater-or-equal/etc instructions are all defined in terms of checking the sign, zero, carry and overflow flags. for instance, jz and je are the same instruction. you just use one or the other if it makes more sense in context (I used to write asm by hand for the art of 4096 byte demos) I used intel notation, because that's what the Asphyxia tutorials and turbo pascal used. So it's what I'm used to. I don't have much of an opinion about the order except that it was an idiotic decision to swap it, either way, the confusion that caused doesn't weigh against if/which one would be more theoretically "right". All the sigils and pre/postfixes seem messy though.