Learning x86 for Non-x86 Assembler Programmers?

An anonymous reader asks: "I've done assembler for the 6809, 68000, 8085, MIPS and ARM architectures over the years. But - I've never learned assembler for the most common architecture out there. I would like to change that. I can roughly follow my way around x86 disassemblies, but I'm not as good at optimizing/fine tuning bits of assembler because I am not intimately familiar with all of the addressing modes etc. I would like a book that is targetted at people like me. I would like to be able to fine tune, say a blitter in x86 assembler. One thing I do not in a book is something that is trying to teach me assembler programming in general. Most assembler books seem to fall in the latter category. Are there books out there that might prove useful to me?"

Comments

It's all in the blend...

[Black Parrot]

So you've been doing assembly for well-designed modern architectures and now you want to learn it for that bit of kludgery we call "x86"? My advice is to run your brain through a kitchen blender and then pour it back into your head. The x86 architecture may start making sense after that.

You sound like a real programmer.

[Anonymous Coward]

You sound like a real programmer - What are you doing reading slashdot? Slashdot is a site for posers, wannabes, and sysadmins.