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You will agree that a lot of the AVX instructions are far from intuitive, especially the different mask layouts that make the code difficult to read and understand. Moreover, the bit masks are sometimes written in hexadecimal notation, so you have to convert them first to binary notation to see what they do.
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Van Hoey, J. (2019). Performance Optimization. In: Beginning x64 Assembly Programming. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5076-1_38
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