Hacker's Delight (2nd Edition) 2nd Edition

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In Hacker’s Delight, Second Edition, Hank Warren once again compiles an irresistible collection of programming hacks: timesaving techniques, algorithms, and tricks that help programmers build more elegant and efficient software, while also gaining deeper insights into their craft. Warren’s hacks are eminently practical, but they’re also intrinsically interesting, and sometimes unexpected, much like the solution to a great puzzle. They are, in a word, a delight to any programmer who is excited by the opportunity to improve.

Extensive additions in this edition include

A new chapter on cyclic redundancy checking (CRC), including routines for the commonly used CRC-32 code
A new chapter on error correcting codes (ECC), including routines for the Hamming code
More coverage of integer division by constants, including methods using only shifts and adds
Computing remainders without computing a quotient
More coverage of population count and counting leading zeros
Array population count
New algorithms for compress and expand
An LRU algorithm
Floating-point to/from integer conversions
Approximate floating-point reciprocal square root routine
A gallery of graphs of discrete functions
Now with exercises and answers

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Title	The Pragmatic Programmer	How to Use Objects	Hacker's Delight	Effective Debugging
Author	Andrew Hunt, David Thomas	Holger Gast	Henry S. Warren	Diomidis Spinellis
Page Count	352	832	512	256
Pub Date	10/20/1999	12/15/2015	9/25/2012	6/23/2016
Binding	Paperback	Hardcover	Hardcover	Paperback
Series	None	None	None	Effective Software Development Series
Description	Straight from the programming trenches, The Pragmatic Programmer cuts through the increasing specialization and technicalities of modern software development to examine the core process--taking a requirement and producing working, maintainable code that delights its users. It covers topics ranging from personal responsibility and career development to architectural techniques for keeping your code flexible and easy to adapt and reuse.	"While most developers today use object-oriented languages, the full power of objects is available only to those with a deep understanding of the object paradigm. How to Use Objects will help you gain that understanding, so you can write code that works exceptionally well in the real world. Author Holger Gast focuses on the concepts that have repeatedly proven most valuable and shows how to render those concepts in concrete code. He explores crucial intricacies, clarifies easily misunderstood ideas, and helps you avoid subtle errors that could have disastrous consequences. "	Hank Warren once again compiles an irresistible collection of programming hacks: timesaving techniques, algorithms, and tricks that help programmers build more elegant and efficient software, while also gaining deeper insights into their craft. Warren’s hacks are eminently practical, but they’re also intrinsically interesting, and sometimes unexpected, much like the solution to a great puzzle. They are, in a word, a delight to any programmer who is excited by the opportunity to improve.	Diomidis Spinellis helps experienced programmers accelerate their journey to mastery, by systematically categorizing, explaining, and illustrating the most useful debugging methods, strategies, techniques, and tools. Drawing on more than thirty-five years of experience, Spinellis expands your arsenal of debugging techniques, helping you choose the best approaches for each challenge. He presents vendor-neutral, example-rich advice on general principles, high-level strategies, concrete techniques, high-efficiency tools, creative tricks, and the behavioral traits associated with effective debugging.

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“This is the first book that promises to tell the deep, dark secrets of computer arithmetic, and it delivers in spades. It contains every trick I knew plus many, many more. A godsend for library developers, compiler writers, and lovers of elegant hacks, it deserves a spot on your shelf right next to Knuth. In the ten years since the first edition came out, it’s been absolutely invaluable to my work at Sun and Google. I’m thrilled with all of the new material in the second edition.”

— Joshua Bloch

“When I first saw the title, I figured that the book must be either a cookbook for breaking into computers (unlikely) or some sort of compendium of little programming tricks. It’s the latter, but it’s thorough, almost encyclopedic, in its coverage. The second edition covers two new major topics and expands the overall collection with dozens of additional little tricks, including one that I put to use right away in a binary search algorithm: computing the average of two integers without risking overflow. This hacker is indeed delighted!”

— Guy Steele

About the Author

Henry S. Warren, Jr., has had a fifty-year career with IBM, spanning from the IBM 704 to the PowerPC and beyond. He has worked on various military command and control systems and on the SETL (SET Language) project under Jack Schwartz. Since 1973, Hank has been with IBM’s Research Division, focusing on compilers and computer architectures. He currently works on a supercomputer project aimed at an exaflop. Hank received his Ph.D. in computer science from the Courant Institute at New York University.

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Hardcover: 512 pages
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional; 2 edition (October 5, 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0321842685
ISBN-13: 978-0321842688
Product Dimensions: 6.5 x 1.2 x 9.2 inches
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January 8, 2013

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Hacker's Delight first edition was resourceful. This second edition even more so.

The bit manipulation chapters have lots of hints on how to code without branches.

There are some "scary" math on later chapters but you can ignore it.

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February 7, 2017

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In 5, 10, 50 years this book will be still actual, correct and usefull.

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Filatov Evgeniy

June 2, 2016

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A friend has borrowed my copy of the book before I have read it. He still keeps it, so I guess it must be good! :-)

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January 24, 2014

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I rarely recommend a second edition of anything to someone who owns the first, but this stands out as a worthy exception. It starts with the amazing menagerie of slick tricks that the first edition had, but adds material regarding CRCs, error correction, creative arithmetic, and more. Oh, I'm sure you can get by without these for lots of purposes. When efficiency really matters, though, or when you need to work in constrained environments (like small embedded processors that lack floating point or maybe even division instructions), approaches like these more than make up for the effort involved in using them. And, if you code in VHDL or Verilog instead of sequential languages, tools like these can help you past that last nanosecond to meet timing.

Highly recommended, not just because my copy of the first edition came with so many poorly-bound, loose pages.

-- wiredweird

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Richard L. Rankin

This is "Hacker" in the very good sense of the word. No help for the bad guys here.

November 8, 2013

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This not what you might think the title implies. This is on the level of Donald Knuth's books although there's no attempt to be comprehensive. These are tips for hacker's with the equivalent knowledge of a hacker with a PhD in Computer Science. Great stuff for the serious programmer.

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January 6, 2017

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Gift which was just what he wanted!

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Awesome book, love it!

October 18, 2015

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Awesome book, love it!

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August 19, 2013

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Everybody knows Colman's algorithm book and Knuth's TAOCP is great book. but Nobody(?) read those. those books are too hard for mere mortals. This book can be solution. many practical algorithms are explained quite well. easy to read. and can be used directly - C source code provided - . This book reduces significant time for searching algorithms in internet.

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An absolute must for any programmer's reference library

This book contains all of the low level secrets that anyone who writes efficient code needs to know.

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Hackers Delight is a very good book for a very limited audience.

The value of this book is in it's shortcut for writing your own code for a microcontroller or generic processor.Read more

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Hacker's Delight is another timeless classic.

Any book with the word "hacker" catches my attention. I probably have 10 books or more with this word in the title.Read more

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Great book and truly a gem, but if your math is weak look somewhere else because you'll be confused and un satisfied leaving this book on your shelf gaining dust.

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Awesome binary arithmetic assistant!

This book was recommended by my professor.

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nice book, good for reviewing it once in a ...

nice book, good for reviewing it once in a while. Don't read before interviews, it might confuse you and most interviewers won't understand what you want to do.Read more

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Wonderful for embedded systems programmers.

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