Art of 64-Bit Assembly

A new book on programming in assembly language by a popular master. "The Art of 64-Bit Assembly Language" builds on the enduring success of Hyde's groundbreaking work "The Art of Assembly Language." Randall Hyde's "The Art of Assembly Language" has been the standard reference for learning assembly language for decades. Hyde's latest work, "The Art of 64-Bit Assembly Language," is the 64-bit version of this popular text. This book guides you through the maze of programming in assembly language by demonstrating how to write assembly code that mimics operations in high-level languages. It leverages your knowledge of high-level languages to quickly grasp x86-64 assembly language. This new work uses the Microsoft Macro Assembler (MASM), the most popular x86-64 assembler today. Hyde covers the standard integer set as well as the x87 FPU, SIMD parallel instructions, SIMD scalar instructions (including high-performance floating-point instructions), and the very powerful macro functions of MASM. You will learn in detail how to implement data and control structures from high-level languages in assembly language, how to write parallel algorithms using SIMD (Single Instruction, Multiple Data) instructions on x86-64, and how to create standalone assembly games and assembly languages that link with high-level code. You will also learn how to optimize specific algorithms in assembly language to produce faster code.