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Summary: excellent text
Review: This is an excellent text that I'm using in a junior-level computer architecture course. It covers popular modern architectural and microarchitectural techniques (e.g., register renaming and predicated instructions) in detail suitable to undergraduates - while not focusing on a particular instruction set as in some other undergraduate texts. It provides excellent coverage of memory hierarchies. Aspects of the IA-64, PowerPC, SPARC, and x86 architectures are used as examples. Lucid and well written - it is well suited for self-study.
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Summary: dull.
Review: used this book for a college class....Made me want to stick a pencil in my eye so I could read this boring material....
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Summary: What a pitiful read.
Review: Why make it easy for the reader and come to the point? The authors of this book just use too many words. It is a waste of time to read all this blah, blah, blah. The concepts are easy in themselves.
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Summary: Too wordy
Review: Why make it easy for the reader and come to the point? The authors of this book just use too many words. It is a waste of time to read all this blah, blah, blah. The concepts are easy in themselves.
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