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Just so you know, programming in MIPS is natively just pure assembly. There are ways to program these in C and have it compiled in ASM though. If you don't know assembly yet, that's probably the way to go. They do a fairly good job, but if you want the best optimized, you probably are going to want to hard code the ASM yourself. I'd probably start by using C and if that doesn't work well enough, go from there. These compilers also support using ASM code inline with the C code, which is what I'm doing now on an Atmel uc.