World's Thickest Book

Intel should publish all of their documentation, including

http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/architecture-and-technology/64-ia-32-architectures-software-developer-manual-325462.html
and
http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/architecture-and-technology/64-ia-32-architectures-optimization-manual.html

in one book.

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x86 demands constant register spill, by design, and you say the compiler writers are the stupid ones? Really? How much of your precious instruction density savings is spent by the additional instructions you must add to twiddle values about that tiny register set?