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Beginning x64 Assembly Programming: From Novice to AVX Professional
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Beginning x64 Assembly Programming: From Novice to AVX Professional

by Jo Van Hoey
October 2019
Beginner
407 pages
6h 50m
English
Apress
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© Jo Van Hoey 2019
J. Van HoeyBeginning x64 Assembly Programminghttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5076-1_18

18. Macros

Jo Van Hoey1 
(1)
Hamme, Belgium
 

When you use the same set of instructions several times in a program, you can create a function and call that function every time you need to execute the instructions. However, there is a performance penalty with functions: every time you call a function, the execution jumps to the function at some place in memory and, when finished, jumps back to the calling program. Calling and returning from a function takes time.

To avoid this performance issue, you can work with macros. Similar to functions, macros are a sequence of instructions. You assign a name to the macro, and when you need to execute the ...

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