The Art of 64-Bit Assembly, Volume 1 - by Randall Hyde (Paperback)

About the Book

"A thorough guide to writing high-performance programs in 64-bit assembly language using the Microsoft MASM assembler. Programmers that can code in a high-level language will learn about memory access, numeric conversion, bit manipulation, and managing complex projects"--

Book Synopsis

A new assembly language programming book from a well-loved master. Art of 64-bit Assembly Language capitalizes on the long-lived success of Hyde's seminal The Art of Assembly Language.

Randall Hyde's The Art of Assembly Language has been the go-to book for learning assembly language for decades. Hyde's latest work, Art of 64-bit Assembly Language is the 64-bit version of this popular text. This book guides you through the maze of assembly language programming by showing how to write assembly code that mimics operations in High-Level Languages. This leverages your HLL knowledge to rapidly understand 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 MASM's very powerful macro facilities. You'll learn in detail: how to implement high-level language data and control structures in assembly language; how to write parallel algorithms using the SIMD (single-instruction, multiple-data) instructions on the x86-64; and how to write stand alone assembly programs and assembly code to link with HLL code. You'll also learn how to optimize certain algorithms in assembly to produce faster code.

Review Quotes

"Hands down the best reference and most in depth book on x86/x64 Assembly language."
--TechMeister, Amazon reviewer

About the Author

Randall Hyde is an embedded software engineer who has worked in the medical, nuclear, consumer
electronics, and entertainment industries. He taught assembly language programming at the University level for over 10 years and has written hundreds of thousands of lines of assembly code for embedded and commercial applications over the years.