Learn x86-64 assembly by writing a GUI from scratch

1. VisualMASM

   1 1 1,361 10.0 Pascal

   Visual MASM - Assembly IDE for Microsoft MASM

   

   Writing Win32 programs in assembly was a niche in the late-90s. This post inspired me to do some googling for a project I was familiar with back then and discovered the author has brought it back to life at https://github.com/ThomasJaeger/VisualMASM.

2. SaaSHub

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   SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews. SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives

   

3. go

   2 2,432 135,760 9.9 Go

   The Go programming language

   

   Example of assembly in Go source code:

   https://github.com/golang/go/blob/master/src/crypto/md5/md5b...

4. rav1e

   3 71 4,142 1.6 Assembly

   The fastest and safest AV1 encoder.

   

   Sure. You'll see it very often in codec implementations. From rav1e, a fast AV1 encoder mostly written in Rust: https://github.com/xiph/rav1e/tree/master/src/x86

   Large portions of the algorithm have been translated into assembly for ARM and x86. Shaving even a couple percent off something like motion compensation search will add up to meaningful gains.

   Or the current reference implementation of JPEG: https://github.com/libjpeg-turbo/libjpeg-turbo/tree/main/sim...

5. libjpeg-turbo

   4 18 4,383 9.3 C

   Main libjpeg-turbo repository

   

   Sure. You'll see it very often in codec implementations. From rav1e, a fast AV1 encoder mostly written in Rust: https://github.com/xiph/rav1e/tree/master/src/x86

   Large portions of the algorithm have been translated into assembly for ARM and x86. Shaving even a couple percent off something like motion compensation search will add up to meaningful gains.

   Or the current reference implementation of JPEG: https://github.com/libjpeg-turbo/libjpeg-turbo/tree/main/sim...

6. OpenBLAS

   5 25 7,553 9.9 C

   OpenBLAS is an optimized BLAS library based on GotoBLAS2 1.13 BSD version.

   

   Yeah. I'm going to be helping to work on expanding CI for OpenBlas and have been diving into this stuff lately. See the discussion in this closed OpenBlas issue gh-1968 [0] for instance. OpenBlas's Skylake kernels do rely on intrinsics [1] for compilers that support them, but there's a wide range of architectures to support, and when hand-tuned assembly kernels work better, that's what are used. For example, [2].

   [0] https://github.com/xianyi/OpenBLAS/issues/1968

   [1] https://github.com/xianyi/OpenBLAS/blob/develop/kernel/x86_6...

   [2] https://github.com/xianyi/OpenBLAS/blob/23693f09a26ffd8b60eb...

7. compiler-explorer

   6 228 18,975 9.8 TypeScript

   Run compilers interactively from your web browser and interact with the assembly

   

8. pgubook-macos-x86-64

   7 1 7 10.0 Assembly

   Programs from the "Programming from the Ground Up 1.0" book ported to macOS (XNU kernel) and x86_64

   

   https://github.com/lmartinho/pgubook-macos-x86-64

   Seems very handy, since most assembly tutorials nowadays are Windows/Linux-specific.

9. junkcode

   8 1 - -

   Doing it locally is better, for mine.

   eg

     https://gitlab.com/hal88/junkcode/-/blob/master/c_template.c

10. JWasm

    9 4 120 2.0 C

    JWasm continuation (by JWasm)

    

11. asmc

    10 3 90 9.1 Assembly

    Masm compatible assembler

    

12. UASM

    11 4 270 0.0 C

    UASM - Macro Assembler

    

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