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I must say all the book suggestions are really great. Except for P&H. As mentioned in comment he now recommends CS:APP over it and I would do too.

Also, for compilers I would suggest C compiler design [1]. It provides both implementation and theory instead of just theory which the dragon book does.

[1] https://holub.com/compiler/



> Except for P&H. As mentioned in comment he now recommends CS:APP

P&H is “Patterson & Hennesy” (Computer Organization and Design), right? I gotta say, having read both, I think they cover different ground and I wouldn’t say that once replaces the other. P&H is more hardware with a nod to software and CS:APP is more software with a nod to hardware; you won’t get a really deep understanding of instruction pipelining from CS:APP, nor will you really get great coverage of linking and loading from P&H. If you’re going to do it, read both.


I dearly agree with you. But, given an options between two I'll chose CSS:APP. Reason being it being more close to software.

I'll like to say that I had the same observation as you when went through both. I almost felt like I wrote the comment.


That's true - you're definitely correct that P&H is more of a "nice to have" for a developer.




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