4 stories tagged low-level-programming, newest first.
17 points by joelsiks | 2 comments
Blog post explaining why the ldaxr exclusive load instruction can fail on AArch64 depending on memory types, attributes, and cacheability, via a spin lock example.
568 points by WadeGrimridge | 211 comments
Mitchell Hashimoto blog post arguing SIMD is simple to learn and showing the common shape of SIMD code for speeding up loops.
384 points by 90s_dev | 97 comments
First part of a blog tutorial series on learning x86-64 assembly, covering environment setup and first steps.
589 points by thunderbong | 133 comments
Tutorial blog post teaching x86-64 assembly by building a minimal X11 GUI window displaying "Hello, world!" from scratch.