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In this chapter, you learn how to use some of the instruction set extensions that were introduced in Chapter 8. The first section contains a couple of source code examples that exemplify use of the scalar and packed fused-multiply-add (FMA) instructions. The second section covers instructions that involve the general-purpose registers. This section includes source code examples that explain flagless multiplication and bit shifting. It also surveys some of the enhanced bit-manipulation instructions. The final section discusses the instructions that perform half-precision floating-point conversions.
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Kusswurm, D. (2018). AVX2 Programming – Extended Instructions. In: Modern X86 Assembly Language Programming. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-4063-2_11
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