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J. Van HoeyBeginning x64 Assembly Programminghttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5076-1_28

28. SSE Alignment

Jo Van Hoey1 
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Hamme, Belgium
 

It’s time to start the real SSE work! Although we have had a number of chapters on SSE, we only scratched the surface of the subject. There are hundreds of SIMD instructions (MMX, SSE, AVX), and investigating them in-depth would require another book or even a series of books. In this chapter, we will give a number of examples so that you know where to start. The purpose of these examples is to enable you to find your way in the multitude of SIMD instructions in the Intel manuals. In this chapter, we will discuss alignment, which we already covered briefly in Chapter 26.

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