Quantitative

[graydon]

I have a bunch of favourite "classic" computer books -- SICP, Hacker's Delight, Little Lisper, Exploring Randomness -- but one I really like doesn't often come up in people's lists: Computer Architecture, a Quantitative Approach. Hennessy and Patterson.

Comments

[kiwano]

I think the threshold effects are as much about size and cost as they are about speed (although I suppose those three attributes can be considered interchangeable, and effectively equivalent).