What’s New in the Third Edition, Revised Printing The same great book gets better! This revised printing features all of the original content along with these additional features:? Appendix A (Assemblers, Linkers, and the SPIM Simulator) has been moved from the CD-ROM into the printed book? Corrections and bug fixesThird Edition featuresNew pedagogical features? Understanding Program Performance - Analyzes key performance issues from the programmer’s perspective ? Check Yourself Questions - Helps students assess their understanding of key points of a section ? Computers In the Real World - Illustrates the diversity of applications of computing technology beyond traditional desktop and servers ? For More Practice - Provides students with additional problems they can tackle ? In More Depth - Presents new information and challenging exercises for the advanced student New reference features ? Highlighted glossary terms and definitions appear on the book page, as bold-faced entries in the index, and as a separate and searchable reference on the CD. ? A complete index of the material in the book and on the CD appears in the printed index and the CD includes a fully searchable version of the same index. ? Historical Perspectives and Further Readings have been updated and expanded to include the history of software R&D. ? CD-Library provides materials collected from the web which directly support the text. In addition to thoroughly updating every aspect of the text to reflect the mos...