Inner Loops, w. CD-ROM: Sourcebook for Fast 32-bit Software Development

Includes coverage of Pentium II - referred to in the chapters on Pentium Pro and MMX.

Inner Loops: A Sourcebook for Fast 32-bit Software Development gives the green light to optimal PC performance with practical advice and a strategic sampling of important algorithms. Focused directly on the 32-bit future of PC computing, Inner Loops explores the new rules and opportunities of a wide-open memory space, parallel instruction execution, and clock speeds in the hundreds of megahertz. You'll be taken through:

• a thorough review of 32-bit code optimization for the 486, Pentium, and Pentium Pro
• making the transition from 16-bit to 32-bit assembly language
• principles of C and assembly language optimization
• tips for fast 32-bit software design
• real-world examples of top-speed inner loops for several important PC algorithms
• what MMX, the Intel multimedia extensions, mean for speed

Author Rick Booth backs up his theory of speed with practical examples and source code, including such topics as:

• Fast memory moves
• Random numbers
• Hashing
• Huffman compression
• Sorting
• Matrix math
• JPEG's inner loop

Consultant and developer Rick Booth is a 17-year veteran of the video game and digital video industries.

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