Yes, the book is well written and up to No Starch Press's standards, but I don't think it deserved the blanket title "The Art of Assembly."
I'm not interested in optimizing the last microsecond of my programs so for normal development it has exactly 0 relevance.
Exactly, HLA is not what people expect to be learning when mentioning Assembly.
If you're going this route, you might as well learn LLVM.
I bought the book many years ago, and yes I think it's better suited for compiler devs (HLA compiler still need assemblers like MASM, FASM etc to build the executables), and not for someone learning assembly programming basics.
discardable_dan•2w ago
And it does not help that this page starts with a dick joke.
kimixa•2w ago
I assumed it was as it's now available in hardcopy.
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