Michael Abrash\'s Graphics Programming Black Book is a collection of the author\'s previous books on assembly language and graphics programming, as well as past columns for Dr. Dobb\'s magazine. Though much of the book (such as 8088/286/386 assembly language optimization and VGA graphics programming) is out-of-date by now, the reader can see some of the larger tendencies in the author\'s work over the years--a reliance on profiling in order to test code, and creative thinking to improve performance wherever possible. This text features assembler optimization for a variety of problems including searching algorithms, and records the author\'s approaches to optimizing code for the evolving line of Intel CPUs, from the 8088 on to the early...

ISBN: 1-57610-174-6
Издательство: Coriolis Group Books
Дата выхода: август 1997