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… ...

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 ...

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 – ...