Today's programming languages offer productivity and portability, but also make it easy to write sloppy code that isn't optimized for a compiler. Thinking Low-Level, Writing High-Level will teach you to craft source code that results in good machine code once it's run through a compiler.
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With an understanding of how compilers work, you'll be able to write source code that they can translate into elegant machine code.
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