In assembly language “put 1 in register 0” is written like this: “movs r0, #1”. So when the assembler see a “movs” operation it can generate the right machine code, depending on the ...

I have only written assembly language for a handful of CPUs, and not much of it at that, but I’ve found the microcontrollers to be the friendliest. So if you want to dip your toes in that water ...

The FFmpeg team recently announced a massive speed increase thanks to some newly patched code. The open-source project is now ...

A tiny interpreter can be written in as few as 1000 lines of assembly language, which is between 1000 and 2000 instructions approximately 1K to 2K bytes. Steve Wozniak, famously wrote SWEET-16 for ...

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 ...