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Explains how compilers translate high-level language source code (like code written in Python) into low-level machine code (code that the computer can understand) to help readers understand how to produce the best low-level, computer readable machine code. Today's programmers are tasked with writing optimal computer code to produce high performance systems, whether for machine learning, data science, or artificial intelligence. This second edition of the highly-regarded Thinking Low-Level, Writing High-Level (Volume 2 in the best-selling Write Great Code series) teaches readers how to produce better machine code by directing the actions of their chosen compiler. This second edition has been updated to cover high-level programming languages (such as Swift and Java) as well as code generation on 64-bit CPUsARM, the Java Virtual Machine, and the Microsoft Common Runtime.

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Praise for the first edition of Write Great Code, Volume 2: Set aside some money and buy this book, or get a friend to buy it and get it from them while still in the store. When you get home, read it TWICE so that you master what is in these pages. Then read it again. --DevCity Write Great Code Volume 2 exceeds its goal of helping developers pay more attention to application performance when writing applications in high-level languages. This book is a must for any high-level application developer. --Free Software Magazine As a high-level-language programmer, if you want to know what's really going on with your programs, you need to spend a little time learning assembly language--and you won't find an easier introduction. --DevX This is a good book. A very very good book. Frankly, I'm blown away at the quality of writing. --Toronto Ruby User Group

"Praise for the first edition of Write Great Code, Volume 2: ""Set aside some money and buy this book, or get a friend to buy it and get it from them while still in the store. When you get home, read it TWICE so that you master what is in these pages. Then read it again."" —DevCity ""Write Great Code Volume 2 exceeds its goal of helping developers pay more attention to application performance when writing applications in high-level languages. This book is a must for any high-level application developer. —Free Software Magazine ""As a high-level-language programmer, if you want to know what's really going on with your programs, you need to spend a little time learning assembly language—and you won't find an easier introduction."" —DevX ""This is a good book. A very very good book. Frankly, I'm blown away at the quality of writing."" —Toronto Ruby User Group"

Praise for the first edition of Write Great Code, Volume 2: Set aside some money and buy this book, or get a friend to buy it and get it from them while still in the store. When you get home, read it TWICE so that you master what is in these pages. Then read it again. -DevCity Write Great Code Volume 2 exceeds its goal of helping developers pay more attention to application performance when writing applications in high-level languages. This book is a must for any high-level application developer. -Free Software Magazine As a high-level-language programmer, if you want to know what's really going on with your programs, you need to spend a little time learning assembly language-and you won't find an easier introduction. -DevX This is a good book. A very very good book. Frankly, I'm blown away at the quality of writing. -Toronto Ruby User Group

Praise for the first edition of Write Great Code, Volume 2: Set aside some money and buy this book, or get a friend to buy it and get it from them while still in the store. When you get home, read it TWICE so that you master what is in these pages. Then read it again. --DevCity Write Great Code Volume 2 exceeds its goal of helping developers pay more attention to application performance when writing applications in high-level languages. This book is a must for any high-level application developer. --Free Software Magazine As a high-level-language programmer, if you want to know what's really going on with your programs, you need to spend a little time learning assembly language--and you won't find an easier introduction. --DevX This is a good book. A very very good book. Frankly, I'm blown away at the quality of writing. --Toronto Ruby User Group

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Randall Hyde is the creator of the Lisa assembler for Apple II and developer of the High Level Assembly Language (HSA). He is the author of The Art of Assembly Language, one of the most highly recommended resources on assembly since 1996, and the Write Great Code series. He has written for Dr. Dobb's Journal, Byte, and the Association for Computing Machinery's Ubiquity magazine.

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