TAOCP is a fundamental work teaching fundamental techniques. If you can master it, pipeline stalls, designing for cache performance, branch prediction, multi-th

TAOCP is a fundamental work teaching fundamental techniques. If you can master it, pipeline stalls, designing for cache performance, branch prediction, multi-threading, etc., are easily understood problems and you have the tools to then attack most any other computational problems that are likely to come along. Sounds like what you want is a prescriptive tutorial addressing a set of specific computing problems. That's not what TAOCP is.