Writing good, performant code depends strongly on an understanding of the underlying hardware. This is especially the case in ...

Two weekends in November for what could be defined as a "gastronomic system," which begins with a simple hot sauce of garlic, oil, and anchovies, and expands to include the convivial culture and the ...

Continuing his reverse-engineering of the Intel 8087, [Ken Shirriff] covers the conditional tests that are implemented in the microcode of this floating point processing unit (FPU). This microcode ...