Right now, I'm considering Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach. Any experience with this one? I'm after both a fairly good coverage of architecture and theory but if you could find one ...

I was wondering if anyone could give their thoughts on the books <I>Computer Organization and Design</I> by David Patterson and John Hennessy and <I>Computer Architecture</I> by John Hennessy.< ...

CATALOG DESCRIPTION: Design and evaluation of modern uniprocessor computing systems. Evaluation methodology/metrics and caveats, instruction set design, advanced pipelining, instruction level ...