Print Is Dead or Computer Systems

Print Is Dead: Books in Our Digital Age

Author: Jeff Gomez

For over 1500 years books have weathered numerous cultural changes remarkably unaltered. Through wars, paper shortages, radio, TV, computer games, and fluctuating literacy rates, the bound stack of printed paper has, somewhat bizarrely, remained the more robust and culturally relevant way to communicate ideas. Now, for the first time since the Middle Ages, all that is about to change. 
 
Newspapers are struggling for readers and relevance; downloadable music has consigned the album to the format scrap heap, and the digital revolution is now about to leave books on the high shelf of history. In Print Is Dead, Gomez explains how authors, producers, distributors, and readers must not only acknowledge these changes, but drive digital book creation, standards, storage, and delivery as the first truly transformational thing to happen in the world of words since the printing press.

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Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective

Author: Randal E Bryant

A PROGRAMMER'S PERSPECTIVE

This book is for programmers who want to write faster and more reliable programs. By learning how programs are mapped onto the system and executed, readers will better understand why programs behave the way they do and how inefficiencies arise. Computer systems are viewed broadly, comprising processor and memory hardware, compiler, operating system, and networking environment. With its programmer's perspective, readers can clearly see how learning about the inner workings of computer systems will help their further development as computer scientists and engineers. It also helps prepare them for further study in computer architecture, operating systems, compilers, and networking.

Topics include: data representations, machine-level representations of C programs, processor architecture, program optimization, memory hierarchy, linking, exceptional control flow, virtual memory and memory management, system-level 1/O, network programming, and concurrent programming. The coverage focuses on how these areas affect application and system programmers. For example, when covering data representations, it considers how the finite representations used to represent numbers can approximate integer and real numbers, but with limitations that must be understood by programmers. When covering caching, it discusses how the ordering of loop indices in matrix code can affect program performance. When covering networking, it describes how a concurrent server can efficiently handle requests from multiple clients.

The book is based on Intel-compatible (IA32) machines executing C programs on Unix or related operating systems such as Linux. Somefamiliarity with C or C++ is assumed, although hints are included to help readers making the transition from Java to C.

A complete set of resources, including labs and assignments, lecture notes, and code examples are available via the book's Web site at csapp.cs.cmu.edu.

Table of Contents:

	Preface
	About the Authors
1	A Tour of Computer Systems	1
Pt. I	Program Structure and Execution
2	Representing and Manipulating Information	24
3	Machine-Level Representation of Programs	122
4	Processor Architecture	254
5	Optimizing Program Performance	376
6	The Memory Hierarchy	454
Pt. II	Running Programs on a System
7	Linking	538
8	Exceptional Control Flow	584
9	Measuring Program Execution Time	650
10	Virtual Memory	690
Pt. III	Interaction and Communication Between Programs
11	System-Level I/O	776
12	Network Programming	800
13	Concurrent Programming	846
A	HCL Descriptions of Processor Control Logic	905
B	Error Handling	925
	Bibliography	949
	Index	953