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I finish reading Write Great Code Vol2 yesterday. I must say it’s a good book, although with one complaint.
Let’s start with the good side. It’s very well written and throughly elaborate on explaining how your compiler turns the high-level language statements into low level assembly. It then goes on for hundreds of pages explaining how to optmize that, from function calls, arrays, structures to small if/else jump conditions, local, static and global variables differences. Basically covers most of the issues a programmer will face or would ask himself “how will this turn into assembly”.
The only complaint I have is not in the book itself but the author over and over and over and over again telling you that if you want to look further into a particular topic that the book doesn’t cover (like line caches) he states that you should get his other book, Write Great Code vol1. I don’t really have anything against good advertisement, but it just gets tiresome after the 10th time he does that.
Still It’s a good read and I enjoyed it. My copy of WGCvol1 is already on the way from Amazon and i’m pretty sure it’ll be a good read as well.
