64-Bit Assembly Language Handbook: Professional Techniques for Writing Efficient Low-Level Software (Embedded Systems Engineering Library)

Haliburton, Joshua M.

ISBN 13: 9798194197842

Editore: Independently published, 2026

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• Titolo: 64-Bit Assembly Language Handbook: Professional Techniques for Writing Efficient Low-Level Software (Embedded Systems Engineering Library)
• Editore: Independently published
• Data di pubblicazione: 2026
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 13: 9798194197842
• Rilegatura: Brossura
• Condizione: New

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Ever opened a debugger, stared at a wall of instructions, and wondered what on earth you were looking at? You're not alone. 64-Bit Assembly Language Handbook was written to make low-level programming understandable, practical, and approachable.

Most programmers spend their careers several layers above the processor, relying on compilers, runtimes, and frameworks to handle the underlying details. And most of the time, that's exactly what we want. But when performance suddenly stalls, a crash makes no sense, or you simply want to understand what your code actually becomes once it leaves the source file, knowing what happens beneath the surface becomes invaluable.

This handbook takes you there.

64-Bit Assembly Language Handbook is a practical guide to writing, reading, debugging, and understanding low-level code on modern 64-bit systems. Starting with the fundamentals—registers, memory, the stack, and the instruction cycle—it gradually builds toward professional techniques for performance optimization, vector processing, defensive programming, and interoperability with C, C++, and Rust.

Inside, you'll learn how to:

• Understand registers, addressing modes, memory, and the stack at a level most programmers never reach
• Write, assemble, link, and debug real 64-bit programs from scratch
• Use vector instructions to accelerate numerical, image, and audio processing
• Recognize and prevent memory corruption, buffer overflows, and other unsafe patterns
• Read and verify compiler-generated assembly instead of guessing what your code is doing
• Build high-performance, cross-platform libraries callable from modern programming languages
• Approach optimization scientifically by measuring performance rather than relying on assumptions

Every chapter focuses on practical understanding. You'll work through real examples, see how instructions affect registers and memory, debug problems, and learn not just what the processor does, but why it does it.

This book is for software engineers who want to understand what happens beneath their code, students who want assembly to finally make sense, security-minded developers who want to understand memory corruption from the inside, and performance engineers who need to squeeze every last cycle from critical code.

Low-level programming isn't going away. It remains the foundation beneath the languages, libraries, and systems we use every day. Learning how that foundation works can change the way you think about software at every level.

If you're ready to stop guessing and start understanding what your code is really doing, 64-Bit Assembly Language Handbook is where that journey begins.