Intel publishes a series of reference manuals for their products. Because of their rapid development cycles, those manual tend to update fairly frequently, often removing older and obsolete information.

Below is an attempt at archiving all past revisions in order to preserve this invaluable historical information from being permanently lost. For the latest revision you should ALWAYS check Intel's own website.

Optimization Reference Manual

Intel's Optimization Reference Manual (Document Number 248966) is a reference manual that discusses the important aspects of Intel's architectures, crucial for understanding how programs are executed by the microprocessor and the kind of optimizations possible for improving performance.

• The latest manual is 248966, Rev 39 from December 26, 2017.

Older revisions:

• 248966, Rev 1
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