RISC Architectures, Optimisation, and Benchmarks.
Second Edition.
Intermediate Level Users.
This new edition gives a thorough overview of the latest workstation and PC architectures, and the trends that will influence the next generation. It pays special attention to memory design, tuning code for the best performance, multi-processors, and benchmarking; and covers the latest Pentium chips, plus other important architectures (Sun UltraSparc, DEC Alpha, IBM PowerPC, HP-PA, MIPS). It also includes exercise sets for each chapter.
