A recent edition of [Babbage’s] The Chip Letter discusses the obscurity of assembly language. He points out, and I think correctly, that assembly language is more often read than written, yet… ...

Next, instruction set extensions are detailed, which include Intel® Streaming SIMD Extensions (Intel® SSE) and Intel® Advanced Vector Extensions (Intel® AVX). The third section shows how to ...

You want to learn assembly language. After all, understanding assembly unlocks the ability to understand what compilers are doing and it is especially important for time-critical code. But most tut… ...

The FFmpeg team recently announced a massive speed increase thanks to some newly patched code. The open-source project is now more than 100 times faster – ...