Ask HN: Any project ideas for a newbie to x64 assembler?

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Post by _wk47 » Tue, May 17, 2022, 12:55 AM UTC

May I get some ideas for real-world projects written in x64 assembler (gas) under GNU/Linux? Of special interest are ideas which would require finely tuned, fault-tolerant programs involving parallel programming using SIMD over AVX-512.

Re: Ask HN: Any project ideas for a newbie to x64 assembler?

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Post by asfarley » Tue, May 17, 2022, 5:55 AM UTC

Implement the latest flavor of YOLO (object recognition) using the latest parallelization CPU features.

Re: Ask HN: Any project ideas for a newbie to x64 assembler?

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Post by bjourne » Tue, May 17, 2022, 8:23 AM UTC

SIMD-based image scaling. If you are good, a hand-tuned x64 assembler implementation can still beat what a C compiler emits.

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Post by Jugurtha » Tue, May 17, 2022, 1:43 PM UTC

When I was 14 or something, I learned x86 assembly by writing programs to other programs do things they weren't supposed to do, or things they could do under certain conditions; mainly patching other programs and finding inspiration in source code of a lot of viruses. There are a lot of things one could learn by disassembling.

Re: Ask HN: Any project ideas for a newbie to x64 assembler?

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Post by fwessels » Tue, May 17, 2022, 2:36 PM UTC

Albeit not using gas, you may want to check out https://github.com/SnellerInc/sneller -- it has about ~250 primitives written in AVX-512. (Sneller founder)