Chapter 10. Instruction Set Architecture
This chapter discusses the implementation of a CPU’s instruction set. Although the choice of a given instruction set (for example, the 80x86 instruction set) is usually beyond the control of a software engineer, understanding the choices a hardware design engineer has to make when designing a CPU’s instruction set can definitely help you write better code.
CPU instruction sets contain several trade-offs based on assumptions that computer architects make concerning the way software engineers write code. If the machine instructions you choose match the assumptions the CPU’s designers have made, then your code ...
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