Modern Parallel Programming with C++ and Assembly Language: X86 SIMD Development Using AVX, AVX2, and AVX-512

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D. KusswurmModern Parallel Programming with C++ and Assembly Languagehttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-7918-2_10

10. X86-64 Processor Architecture

Daniel Kusswurm¹  

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Geneva, IL, USA

 

In the previous nine chapters, you learned about AVX, AVX2, and AVX-512. You also acquired the programming skills necessary to code C++ SIMD functions that exploited these x86 instruction set extensions to significantly accelerate the performance of a wide variety of algorithms. The chapter that you are about to read commences the second half of this book, which covers x86-AVX SIMD programming using x86-64 assembly language.

Unlike higher-level languages such as C and C++, a ...