本书主要介绍了计算机系统的基本概念,包括*底层的内存中的数据表示、流水线指令的构成、虚拟存储器、编译系统、动态加载库,以及用户应用等。书中提供了大量实际操作,可以帮助读者更好地理解程序执行的方式,改进程序的执行效率。此书以程序员的视角全面讲解了计算机系统,深入浅出地介绍了处理器、编译器、操作系统和网络环境,是这一领域的权威之作。
本书适合作为计算机及相关专业的本科生教材,同时也适用于编程人员参考阅读。

1 A Tour of Computer Systems
1.1 Information is Bits + Context
1.2 Programs Are Translated by Other Programs into Different Forms
1.3 It Pays to Understand How Compilation Systems Work
1.4 Processors Read and Interpret Instructions Stored in Memory
1.5 Caches Matter
1.6 Storage Devices Form a Hierarchy
1.7 The Operating System Manages the Hardware
1.8 Systems CommunicateWith Other Systems Using Networks
1.9 The Next Step
1.10 Summary
Bibliographics Notes
Part I Program Structure and Execution
2 Representing and Manipulating Information
2.1 Information Storage
2.2 Integer Representations
2.3 Integer Arithmetic
2.4 Floating Point
2.5 Summary
Bibliographic Notes
Homework Problems
Solution to Practice Problems
3 Machine-Level Representation of Programs
3.1 A Historical Perspective
3.2 Program Encodings
3.3 Data Formats
3.4 Accessing Information
3.5 Arithmetic and Logical Operations
3.6 Control
3.7 Procedures
3.8 Array Allocation and Access
3.9 Heterogeneous Data Structures
3.10 Alignment
3.11 Putting it Together: Understanding Pointers
3.12 Life in the RealWorld: Using the GDB Debugger
3.13 Out-of-Bounds Memory References and Buffer Over
3.14 *Floating-Point Code
3.15 *Embedding Assembly Code in C Programs
3.16 Summary
Bibliographic Notes
Homework Problems
Solutions to Practice Problems
4 Processor Architecture
5 Optimizing Program Performance
6 The Memory Hierarchy
Part Ⅱ Running Programs on a System
7 Linking
8 Exceptional Control Flow
9 Measuring Program Execution Time
10 Virtual Memory
Part Ⅲ Interaction and Communication Between Programs
11 System-Level I/O
12 Network Programming
13 Concurrent Programming
A HCL Descriptions of Processor Control Logic
B Error Handling
Bibliography
Index

Randal E.Brant:1981年在麻省理工学院获计算机科学博士学位,现任美国卡内基·梅隆大学计算机学院院长,是ACM和IEEE的双会士,多次获得这两个协会颁发的大奖。Bryant教授从事计算机系统方面的教学工作已超过20年,结合计算机体系结构课程多年的教学经验,他开始把关注点从如何设计计算机转移到如何使用程序员在更好地了解系统的情况下编写出更有效、更可靠的程序上来。