In the first three chapters of this book, you learned about the core x86-64 platform including its data types, general-purpose registers, and memory addressing modes. You also examined a cornucopia of sample code that illustrated the fundamentals of x86-64 assembly language programming, including basic operands, integer arithmetic, compare operations, conditional jumps, and manipulation of common data structures.
This chapter introduces Advanced Vector Extensions (AVX). It begins with a brief overview of AVX technologies and SIMD (Single Instruction Multiple Data) ...
