While this isn’t a book on optimizing assembly language, I did feel I should include a few basic optimization ideas, if only so that you will understand what other people are talking about when they talk about optimization. The code in this book is not intended to be optimal; it is intended to be explanatory. Therefore, in most cases, I opted to use code that was clear to the reader rather than optimal for the processor.
There are many reasons to learn assembly. The one that I have focused on in this book is learning assembly ...
