A book length version of content of this quality would be an awesome coffee table book!
vkat 1 days ago [-]
I always wondered why L1 caches couldn't just be bigger. L1 caches need to be close to clock speed of the core and bigger caches means increased latency because the bottleneck is length of the bit line and number of word lines which increases with capacity.
smartmic 1 days ago [-]
For those interested in learning about the inner workings of computers, I also recommend the book Code by Charles Petzold.
"from nand to tetris" is another one... although it's subjects are different and not smooth like Code.
It is interesting to see how many programmers (including me) get graduated without learning this. Although the reason is known.
noman-land 1 days ago [-]
This is a crazy good explanation and the illustrations go a long way.
jrootabega 1 days ago [-]
how disk get fragment?
zahlman 1 days ago [-]
They need to do way instain chip> which corrupt thier data, becuse these data cant fright back? It was on the news this mroing a motherboard in pc which had flip its three bits, they are taking the three data back to new file too era to correct. my parity are with the process which lost its ingetrity ; i am truley sorry for your lots
https://www.makingsoftware.com
https://codehiddenlanguage.com/
It is interesting to see how many programmers (including me) get graduated without learning this. Although the reason is known.
This is a goregous way of presenting a book, and what looks like subscriber only chapter previews.