[Info-vax] Some of what I'm reading...

[IanD]

On Thursday, September 24, 2020 at 1:01:24 AM UTC+10, John Reagan wrote:
> On Tuesday, September 22, 2020 at 6:02:46 PM UTC-4, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
> > On 2018-05-12 20:35:17 +0000, Stephen Hoffman said:
> 
> > Low-level x86 performance optimization, and the sorts of thing that 
> > code generators get to deal with: 
> > https://www.agner.org/optimize/microarchitecture.pdf 
> 
> And people should keep this URL and not download the .PDF.  The document is a living document.  I've read it for a few years now.
> 
> Unlike Alpha and Itanium where there are just a handful of low-level microarchitectures, the x86 world is much larger.  When people ask me about hand-optimizing x86 assembly, I point them to this manual.  They go away and never come back.

I opened the document and started to have a look, then ran away myself!