This is excellent, and opportune timing for me too! I just finished courses on microarchitecture and compiler optimization.
Can anyone recommend any similar articles about low level optimization?
Can anyone recommend any similar articles about low level optimization?
If you want smaller chunks, Denis Bakhvalov is starting to hit his stride with a nice series of blog posts: https://easyperf.net/notes/
If that's not enough, Ingve (who submitted this) has made literally thousands of submissions, and a surprising number are excellent articles on optimization: https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=ingve
I am guilty of having a fair bit of nostalgia for this book. Memories of sitting in the back seat of my parents car in middle school. Pouring through this book. Fascinated by these inner secrets of machines I knew so little about at the time. Presented in a way even a 12 year old could mostly understand.