As an assembly programmer of more than two decades, I initially found it disconcerting that the beginning of this book contains little if any assembly. The author leads readers into low-level assembly ...

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The assembly programmer has to handle time-consuming machine-level issues such as register allocation and instruction scheduling. With C code, these issues are taken care of by the compiler.