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Gain the fundamentals of x86 64-bit assembly language programming and focus on

the updated aspects of the x86 instruction set that are most relevant to application

software development. This book covers topics including x86 64-bit programming and

Advanced Vector Extensions (AVX) programming.

The focus in this second edition is exclusively on 64-bit base programming architecture

and AVX programming. Modern X86 Assembly Language Programming’s structure and

sample code are designed to help you quickly understand x86 assembly language

programming and the computational capabilities of the x86 platform. After reading

and using this book, you’ll be able to code performance-enhancing functions and

algorithms using x86 64-bit assembly language and the AVX, AVX2 and AVX-512

instruction set extensions.

What You Will Learn

Discover details of the x86 64-bit platform including its core architecture, data types,
registers, memory addressing modes, and the basic instruction set
Use the x86 64-bit instruction set to create performance-enhancing functions that
are callable from a high-level language (C++)
Employ x86 64-bit assembly language to efficiently manipulate common data types
and programming constructs including integers, text strings, arrays, and structures
Use the AVX instruction set to perform scalar floating-point arithmetic
Exploit the AVX, AVX2, and AVX-512 instruction sets to significantly accelerate the
performance of computationally-intense algorithms in problem domains such as
image processing, computer graphics, mathematics, and statistics
Apply various coding strategies and techniques to optimally exploit the x86 64-bit,
AVX, AVX2, and AVX-512 instruction sets for maximum possible performance

Who This Book Is For

Software developers who want to learn how to write code using x86 64-bit assembly language. It’s also ideal for software developers who already have a basic understanding of x86 32-bit or 64-bit assembly language programming and are interested in learning how to exploit the SIMD capabilities of AVX, AVX2 and AVX-512.

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Gain the fundamentals of x86 assembly language programming and focus on the updated aspects of the x86 instruction set that are most relevant to application software development. This book covers topics including the new Advanced Vector Extensions (AVX) 512 programming, from the latest x86 instructions set, and the MMX technology and instruction set.

The focus in this second edition is exclusively on 64-bit base programming architecture and AVX programming. Modern X86 Assembly Language Programming’s structure and sample code are designed to help you quickly understand x86 assembly language programming and the computational capabilities of the x86 platform. After reading and using this book, you’ll be able to code performance-enhancing functions and algorithms using x86 64-bit assembly language and the AVX, AVX2 and AVX-512 instruction set extensions.

You will:

Discover details of the x86 64-bit platform including its core architecture, data types, registers, memory addressing modes, and the basic instruction set
Use the x86 64-bit instruction set to create performance-enhancing functions that are callable from a high-level language (C++)
Employ x86 64-bit assembly language to efficiently manipulate common data types and programming constructs including integers, text strings, arrays, and structures
Use the AVX instruction set to perform scalar floating-point arithmetic
Exploit the AVX, AVX2, and AVX-512 instruction sets to significantly accelerate the performance of computationally-intense algorithms in problem domains such as image processing, computer graphics, mathematics, and statistics
Apply various coding strategies and techniques to optimally exploit the x86 64-bit, AVX, AVX2, and AVX-512 instruction sets for maximum possible performance

About the Author

Daniel Kusswurm has over 30 years of professional experience as a software developer and computer scientist. During his career, he has developed innovative software for medical devices, scientific instruments, and image processing applications. On most of these projects, he successfully employed x86 assembly language to significantly improve the performance of computationally-intense algorithms or solve unique programming challenges. His educational background includes a BS in electrical engineering technology along with an MS and PhD in computer science.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Apress; 2nd ed. edition (December 7, 2018)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 625 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1484240626
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1484240625
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.37 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.01 x 1.42 x 10 inches

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This is a fun introduction to x86 assembly programming. It’s a somewhat difficult thing to learn, but you can start to get it, especially if you have some C experience. C is a friendlier, portable assembly (more or less). Assembly is a little niche in this present time, but it is still used and, I hope, will prove useful in the future.

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READ carefully

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I wouldn't have bought the book had I known I had to use MS product.

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Metal level reference to assembler

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Good information on the the nuts and bolts of the current CPU structure. The book provides good references to enabling extremely concise, tight coding to me high performance needs in programming on Metal.

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Mr. Jan Tari

A poor book generally

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There are far too many pages with too little content. What there is could be very confusing. Instructions are mentioned without sufficient explanation (bit string operations? - tell me more! Mentions of x86 strings - are these C-style null terminated strings, or something else? Etc).
Position independent code is mentioned without explaining it.
LAHF/SAHF get mentioned without an explanation. Also the delightfully typo'd CUPID instruction appears in various places.
Tables also appear to have been brain dumped without thought for the end-user, such as in Table 1-10. This has no value as it stands.
Some stuff is over explain, some (rather too much) is under explained. Some just comes out of nowhere, such as zero in a register with XOR. Again, I know exactly why, but if this book is aimed at beginners then it must explain itself.
Also I would expect the registers could be given useful aliases by the assembler. I really got lost in some code because of this. Actual example

; Merge SPFP grayscale values into a single YMM register
vandps ymm4,ymm4,ymm15 ;mask out unneeded SPFP values
vandps ymm5,ymm5,ymm15
vandps ymm6,ymm6,ymm15
vandps ymm7,ymm7,ymm15
vpslldq ymm5,ymm5,4
vpslldq ymm6,ymm6,8
vpslldq ymm7,ymm7,12
vorps ymm0,ymm4,ymm5 ;merge values
vorps ymm1,ymm6,ymm7
vorps ymm2,ymm0,ymm1 ;ymm2 = 8 GS pixel values (SPFP)

That's frustrating and I presume unnecessary.
It's also really unhelpful to refer to 'volatile' without explaining this is not the same 'volatile' as used in C. Volatile here simply means you can trash them.
Also the code given is hugely verbose, quite unnecessarily so, and the description of what's going on (and bless the author, those descriptions are actually often quite reasonable) may be pages away from the code itself, so you have to flip back and forth between them.
As an example of code verbosity, a lot of it is taken up with output of results. Instead of using an old-fashioned printf() we get paragraphs of cout << ... Given that this is not a C++ tutorial, this

cout << "min_vals1: ";
cout << setw(4) << (int)min_vals1[0] << ' ';
cout << setw(4) << (int)min_vals1[1] << ' ';
cout << setw(4) << (int)min_vals1[2] << '\n';
cout << "min_vals2: ";
cout << setw(4) << (int)min_vals2[0] << ' ';
cout << setw(4) << (int)min_vals2[1] << ' ';
cout << setw(4) << (int)min_vals2[2] << "\n\n";

cout << "max_vals1: ";
cout << setw(4) << (int)max_vals1[0] << ' ';
cout << setw(4) << (int)max_vals1[1] << ' ';
cout << setw(4) << (int)max_vals1[2] << '\n';
cout << "max_vals2: ";
cout << setw(4) << (int)max_vals2[0] << ' ';
cout << setw(4) << (int)max_vals2[1] << ' ';
cout << setw(4) << (int)max_vals2[2] << "\n\n";

is not remotely helpful.

There are too many unhelpful brain dumps which don't recognise the beginners are going to get confused by them. Fortunately I'm not a beginner.
The book winds up by giving a very brief overview of AVX512, too little to be of use really.

As others have said, compiler intrinsics are not mentioned. While the book didn't actually promise them, they would have been very welcome to have.

The explanations aren't actually too bad, the code is questionable in its presentation, it's hugely verbose. I came rather close to sending it back but in the end decided to stick with it.

Not recommended.

Added later : I really, really wish for a rationale for a lot of things. There are instructions for what seem to be bitwise and'ing and or'ing of floats. Bitwise ops for floats has almost no rational interpretation I can find (something to do with NaNs perhaps?).
Also type punning is used freely to interface the C++ data structures to the SIMD ASM. As type punning is illegal in C++ as far as I know, some discussion on this is needed, but there's none.

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Mike

In-depth coverage of x86 assembly language

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on August 29, 2022

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This book is not for beginners and I am using it in conjunction with a beginners course, it is an in-depth and interesting study of low-level computer architecture and programming at that level, the only thing negative is the price, which is a tag high! But it's a good study book for those interested in such things.

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Reben

My favorite One

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on September 5, 2020

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This is what I wanted.

JonesTheCode

Comprehensive coverage of the 64-bit Intel processor

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on August 6, 2022

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Ideal for the MASM programmer making the transition from 32-bit to 64-bit, with plenty of code examples for the new extensions.

Vikram

One of the essential book for X86 code writers

Reviewed in Germany 🇩🇪 on May 16, 2021

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Very well written and goes thru basic of x86 extensions (AVX/2/512) to advanced schemes.

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