Write Great Code

Volume 1 : Understanding the machine

Randall Hyde

445 pages, parution le 08/11/2004

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This, the first volume in Randall Hyde's ''Write Great Code'' series, dives into machine organization without the extra overhead of learning assembly language programming. Written for C/C++, VB, Pascal, Java, and other high-level language programmers, Volume I, "Understanding the Machine," fills in the low-level details of machine organization that are often left out of computer science and engineering courses. Learn: +How the machine represents numbers, strings, and high-level data structures, so you'll know the inherent cost of using them. +How to organize your data, so the machine can access it efficiently. +How the CPU operates, so you can write code that works the way the machine does. +How I/O devices operate, so you can maximize your application's performance when accessing those devices. +How to best use the memory hierarchy to produce the fastest possible programs. Great code is efficient code. But before you can write truly efficient code, you must understand how computer systems execute programs and how abstractions in programming languages map to the machine's low-level hardware. After all, compilers don't write the best machine code; programmers do. The information in this first volume of the ''Write Great Code'' series gives you the foundation upon which all great software is built.

This, the first volume in Randall Hyde's Write Great Code series, dives into machine organization without the extra overhead of learning assembly language programming. Written for C/C++, VB, Pascal, Java, and other high-level language programmers, Volume I, "Understanding the Machine," fills in the low-level details of machine organization that are often left out of computer science and engineering courses. Learn:

How the machine represents numbers, strings, and high-level data structures, so you'll know the inherent cost of using them.
How to organize your data, so the machine can access it efficiently.
How the CPU operates, so you can write code that works the way the machine does.
How I/O devices operate, so you can maximize your application's performance when accessing those devices.
How to best use the memory hierarchy to produce the fastest possible programs.

Great code is efficient code. But before you can write truly efficient code, you must understand how computer systems execute programs and how abstractions in programming languages map to the machine's low-level hardware. After all, compilers don't write the best machine code; programmers do. The information in this first volume of the Write Great Code series gives you the foundation upon which all great software is built.

L'auteur - Randall Hyde

RANDALL HYDE has taught assembly language programming at the university level for over a decade and has developed several commercial software systems. His website, Webster: The Place on the Net to Learn Assembly Language Programming (http://webster.cs.ucr.edu), is the premier destination for anyone learning assembly, with well over 2 million visitors. Hyde is the author of Using 6502 Assembly Language (Prentice Hall) and co-author of The Waite Group's MASM 6.0 Bible (Sams).

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What You Need to Know to Write Great Code
Numeric Representation
Binary Arithmetic and Bit Operations
Floating Point Representation
Character Representation
Memory Organization and Access
Composite Data Types and Memory Objects
Boolean Logic and Digital Design
CPU Architecture
Instruction Set Architecture
Memory Architecture and Organization
Input and Output (I/O)
Thinking Low-Level, Writing High-Level

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	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	No Starch Press
Auteur(s)	Randall Hyde
Parution	08/11/2004
Nb. de pages	445
Format	17,5 x 23,5
Couverture	Broché
Poids	754g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9781593270032
ISBN13	978-1-59327-003-2