Computer Architecture, 5th Edition

Foreword

Luiz André Barroso, Google Inc.

The first edition of Hennessy and Patterson’s Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach was released during my first year in graduate school. I belong, therefore, to that first wave of professionals who learned about our discipline using this book as a compass. Perspective being a fundamental ingredient to a useful Foreword, I find myself at a disadvantage given how much of my own views have been colored by the previous four editions of this book. Another obstacle to clear perspective is that the student-grade reverence for these two superstars of Computer Science has not yet left me, despite (or perhaps because of) having had the chance to get to know them in the years since. These disadvantages ...