A bunch of people on HN were asking where to learn the conventions of x86 ASM - this actually is a pretty good place to start. He picked the 8 important registe

A bunch of people on HN were asking where to learn the conventions of x86 ASM - this actually is a pretty good place to start. He picked the 8 important registers, the 3 forms of addressing, demonstrated hi/lo (ah/al) -> ax -> eax -> rax evolution, and kept with the acc, count, data, GP conventions for eax,ecx,edx,ebx which is often overlooked (you can tell which era of x86 asm I grew up in ;)). I'm scared this has the potential to be information overload for people who aren't familiar with an assembly language and Haskell, but for me I thought this was a terribly neat (both in the "interesting" as well as "structurally well done") article. As usual, fantastic work by Steven. Up there with Bartosz and Yang in quality of write-ups.