The Complete Works of Graphics Master, Michael Abrash. Includes everything code performance master Michael Abrash has ever written about optimization and realtime graphics.
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No one has done more to conquer the performance limitations of the PC than Michael Abrash, and in this massive new volume, virtually everything he has ever written about performance coding and realtime graphics has been gathered in one work—including his legendary Zen of Assembly Language. Both Zen of Code Optimization and Zen of Graphics Programming are here in their totality, as well as brand new material on the graphics technology behind Quake. You'll learn about Intel code performance tuning, all the way down to registers, pipelining, and branch prediction. With Michael's collected wisdom in code performance in the back of your mind, you'll discover the theory and practice of seamless, flicker-free, realtime 2D and 3D animation, using state-of-the-art mechanisms like BSP trees. No other book has ever covered code performance and realtime graphics to the depth of Michael Abrash's Graphics Programming Black Book, Special Edition.