Modern X86 Assembly Language Programming: Covers X86 64-bit, AVX, AVX2, and AVX-512

There aren't that many assembly books on the market, comparatively speaking. Not many people are still into it in 2024. While in most areas this would be painful, Kusswurm's enormous attention to detail makes the plentiful examples not only easy to understand, but intuitive. You certainly will want some C++ knowledge going in, or at least enough programming sense to know what the C++ code is doing, but I think anyone interested in this book is either going to be a student or a lifelong programmer anyway so that's hardly a criticism.Coming in, I had little assembly experience, and as such I found the instruction-wise explanations extremely helpful - not just for what was said, but also the choices made, for in assembly one of the first things you learn is that the principles of commutativity in mathematics have little to do with computer processors. When faced with countless possible implementations for an algorithm, there are few better ways to learn than by studying those implemented by an expert in the field. There is not a great deal of discussion about uops and ports and clock cycles (certainly some), but this wasn't meant to be an architecture book - for that, it tends to refer to Intel documentation and Agner Fog's tables and the like. It is instead designed to teach you how to think through optimized assembly code, not so you will leave an expert, but so that you will know what you need to learn to write the program you need to write, and how to learn it. Highly recommend.