Hacker's Delight
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Hacker's Delight
Henry S. Warren
6 people recommended it in 6 threads, 2016–2022.
1 commenter pushed back on it — worth reading the threads.
What people on Hacker News said
The book Hacker's Delight 2 picks up from here and shows you all kinds of bitshifting tricks and other C specific optimizations
Don't get distracted by the name, it's about binary mathematics. Bit twiddling at its finest.
Where it comes up
- Ask HN: Which books do you consider real gems in your field of work/study? 2022 · 1 recommendation
- Ask HN: What are the best short tech/engineering books you have read? 2022 · 1 recommendation
- Ask HN: Best book to gift someone for getting into software engineering? 2019 · 1 recommendation
- The most mentioned books on Stack Overflow 2017 · 1 recommendation
- What are must read books for entry level C programmer? 2017 · 1 recommendation
- Programming books you might want to consider reading 2016 · 1 recommendation