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

First, get the reference books

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Shh! It's a secret, but Intel offers 4 very nice books at a great price: free.

They aren't tutorials, so there isn't the same hand-holding that you would get in a book from Barnes & Noble, but they explain things well enough that a seasoned assembly programmer should be able to follow with no problem at all. I think they are exactly what you want.