Hardcover, 306 pages
English language
Published Aug. 27, 2003 by Addison-Wesley.
"This is a collection of small programming tricks that I have come across over many years. Most of them will work only on computers that represent integers in two's-complement form. Although a 32-bit machine is assumed when register length is relevant, most of the tricks are easily adapted to machines with other register sizes."
"This book does not deal with large tricks such as sophisticated sorting and compiler optimization techniques. Rather, it deals with small tricks that usually involve individual computer words or instructions, such as counting the number of 1-bits in a word. Such tricks often use a mixture of arithmetic and logical instructions." -- From the preface.
This is a collection of silly exercises like "implement this arithmetic operator using only division and negation".
In general hacks are nice. Fast inverse square root comes to mind as an example. But this book is too low-level for it.
I really wish I would never need a hack from this book.
