CHAPTER 22
Advanced Topics Programming
This chapter examines a couple of sample programs that illustrate some advanced x86 assembly language programming techniques. The first sample program explains how to accelerate the performance of a SIMD processing algorithm using non-temporal memory stores. The second sample program exemplifies use of software data prefetches to speed up linked list traversals. Both sample programs implement their respective algorithms using x86-32 and x86-64 assembly language functions in order to facilitate performance comparisons between the two execution environments.
Non-Temporal Memory Stores
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