Editing Vector processor (section)

==== Scalar assembler ====

The scalar version of this would load each of x, add it to y, and loop:

<syntaxhighlight lang=gas>
  set     y, 0     ; y initialised to zero
loop:
  load32  r1, x    ; load one 32bit data
  add32   y, y, r1 ; y := y + r1
  addl    x, x, $4 ; x := x + 4
  subl    n, n, $1 ; n := n - 1
  jgz     n, loop  ; loop back if n > 0
out:
  ret y            ; returns result, y
</syntaxhighlight>

This is very straightforward. "y" starts at zero, 32 bit integers are loaded one at a time into r1, added to y, and the address of the array "x" moved on to the next element in the array.