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Umm, did anyone read the reference manual for x86_64? Intel's big enough to kill a goat (~2000). Add AMD on that and you can kill a small tribe of goats.
by Ygg2 5y ago
Umm, did anyone read the reference manual for x86_64? Intel's big enough to kill a goat (~2000). Add AMD on that and you can kill a small tribe of goats.
- sabas123 5y agoDepending on what you're after there is a lot more than 2000 pages of documentation :) That said, the C standard is also an impenetrable mess, yet people can start using it without resorting to it.
- Ygg2 5y agoIf you are reaching for assembly, usually that means digging into some optimizations. Those are highly obscure.
- _8j50 5y agoThere are not that many compiler generated instructions both for X32 or X64 if you look at it by percentage of code. You have to look up the manual for rare instructions no matter what, you hardly need to read maybe a dozen pages to know enough to understand the common operations and control flow. My argument if you start with the current arch, that will be your frame of reference instead of X32 (why not X16 if earlier is better?)