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Could you elaborate on the "better texts"? Can you give some examples and why/in what respect they are better than (David) Patterson's books? Or are those "bet
by k_sze 7y ago
Could you elaborate on the "better texts"?
Can you give some examples and why/in what respect they are better than (David) Patterson's books? Or are those "better texts" the Ars Technica CPU reviews and manufacturer datasheets that you mentioned in the subsequent sentence?
- kabdib 7y agoI liked John Shen's Modern Processor Design and Noam Nisan's The Elements of Computing Systems. The websites I mentioned have hobbyist-level details that are pretty interesting (but in general won't teach you much about things like concurrency hazards and branch prediction and so forth).