Thu, 01 Jun 2006
Write Great Code
Randall Hyde, Write Great Code Vol. 2
Thinking low-level, writing high-level,
No Starch Press
You might remember Randall Hyde's book about assembler
that was reviewed here a while back. Here we go higher level
to some extent. The idea is that in order to write great code
you need to know and understand what's happening with the
compiler. How can you know if code is somewhere near optimal
without such information? And the fact is that even though
we have multi-GHz CPU's these days and most likely a ton
of RAM (we have to just to run the behemoth operating
systems) then this problem isn't worth worrying about. It
is, of course, worth worrying about.
Under chapter headings like Thinking Low-Level, Writing
High Level; 80x86 and PowerPC Assembly for the HLL Programmer;
Compiler Operation and Code Generation, plus an examination
of control structures and data types, you get a very
detailed course in how to get down and get fast. And you
get it by being down in the practical detail
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