Modern X86 Assembly Language Programming: 32-bit, 64-bit, SSE, and AVX

• 32-bit core architecture, data types, internal registers, memory addressing modes, and the basic instruction set
• X87 core architecture, register stack, special purpose registers, floating-point encodings, and instruction set
• MMX technology and instruction set
• Streaming SIMD extensions (SSE) and Advanced Vector Extensions (AVX) including internal registers, packed integer arithmetic, packed and scalar floating-point arithmetic, and associated instruction sets
• 64-bit core architecture, data types, internal registers, memory addressing modes, and the basic instruction set
• 64-bit extensions to SSE and AVX technologies
• X86 assembly language optimization strategies and techniques

What youÂ’ll learn

• How to use the x86’s 32-bit and 64-bit instruction sets to create performance-enhancing functions that are callable from a high-level language (C++)
• How to use x86 assembly language to efficiently manipulate common programming constructs including integers, floating-point values, text strings, arrays, and structures
• How to use the SSE and AVX extensions to significantly accelerate the performance of computationally-intensive algorithms and subroutines in problem domains such as image processing, computer graphics, mathematics, and statistics
• How to use various coding strategies and techniques to optimally exploit the x86’s microarchitecture for maximum possible performance
• Book appendixes can be downloaded here: http://www.apress.com/9781484200650?gtmf=s

Who this book is for

The target audience for Modern X86 Assembly Language Programming is software developers including:

• Software developers who are creating application programs for Windows-based platforms and want to learn how to write performance-enhancing algorithms and functions using x86 assembly language
• Software developers who are creating application programs for non-Windows environments and want to learn x86 assembly language programming
• Software developers who have a basic understanding of x86 assembly language programming and want to learn how to use SSE and AVX
• Software developers and computer science students who want or need to gain a better understanding of the x86 platform including its internal architecture and instruction sets