Book details of 'The Complete Guide to MMX Technology'

Title	The Complete Guide to MMX Technology
Author(s)	David Bistry, Carole Dulong, Mickey Gutman, Mike Julier, Michael Kieth, Lawrence M. Mennemeier, Millind Mittal, Alex D. Peleg, Uri Weiser
ISBN	0070061920
Language	English
Published	April 1997
Publisher	McGraw-Hill/TAB Electronics

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Reviewer Rob Slade wrote:
This book appears to be an interleaved conflation of three texts with quite disparate purposes. One portion is a standard technical reference to MMX technology, giving details of the register architecture and instructions. The MMX extensions to Intel processors provide parallel and array processing for multimedia functions, and can also be used for applications such as brute force attacks on encryption. A second component appears to be a course-based text for use in microprocessor classes. This is most apparent in the rather simplistic sets of end-of-chapter questions. The third entity seems to be some kind of marketing document promoting the use of MMX by software developers. (Of course, if Intel can convince developers to write important programs using MMX instructions, then users will have to buy MMX processors, now, won't they?) The CD-ROM includes utilities to aid in debugging MMX code and operations. (We don't want to influence any court battles, but boy!, is this stuff ever similar to briefings on the Alpha from four years ago....) copyright Robert M. Slade, 1997
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Intel's new MMX TM technology--now built into every Pentium and other Intel Desktop processor--can dramatically increase the performance of multimedia applications. This unique book, written by members of the Intel MMX architecture team, makes MMX technology understandable and accessible to all readers and provides a wealth of practical advice on using MMX technology to maximum advantage--compatibility features, expanded instruction set, code examples and programming utilities on an accompanying CD-ROM, optimization guidelines, tips on using MMX tools, and techniques for MMX coding.