Re: Suggestion for some good ASM books?

Once you have mastered a couple of assembly languages for different
types of processors, it is not difficult to pick up another. If you
worked on some mainframe or minicomputer assembly languages, switching
to the Intel processors such as the 8088 is somewhat of a jump. The
endian change and limited registers make it a learning experience.

Some of the optimizations that can be used with Intel processors,
especially the latest few generations, are very difficult to do. Even
Intel has problems discovering why removing an unneeded multiply
causes the code to slow down significantly. They have special
simulators (I don't know if hardware or software) that can be used to
diagnose the problem.

The first assembler you learn will help prepare you for more if you
master it, but it still may be a lot of work to obtain proficiency in
a new one.

On 25 Aug 2006 08:34:05 -0700, spamtrap@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:


sleeper wrote:
Thanks for the help, but would there be any windows oriented Windows
books? using MASM possibly?

It's pretty trivial to switch to another assembler once you've mastered
one. It's not like switching from C++ to Java.

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