CS:APP

We recently used the UCLID5 verifier, developed at U.C., Berkeley, to formally verify the Y86-64 processors described in Chapter 4 of CS:APP...

Pearson now distributes electronic editions of CS:APP through VitalSource.  See https://www.vitalsource.com/products/computer-systems-a-pr...

An English-language version of CS:APP3e has now been made available from China Machine Press . Such versions from previous editions of t...

Prof. Casey Deccio at BYU wrote this catchy ditty about CS:APP called Hello Summer Break . It's pretty awesome!

In a previous post , I showed how the different editions of CS:APP have used the memory mountain as a way to visualize memory system perform...

Through all 3 editions, CS:APP has used memory mountains to illustrate how the cache hierarchy affects memory system performance.  Here we ...

Section 5.14 of CS:APP3e demonstrates how to use the code profiling tool gprof to identify slow portions of a program.  It uses as an exampl...

The Chinese version of CS:APP3e was published by China Machine Press in November, 2016. More information is available at the publisher...

There's a report out today from Google that their security team discovered a buffer overflow vulnerability in the GNU implementation of ...

We've updated the CS:APP Proxy Lab with a new autograder that checks for basic proxy behavior, concurrent execution, and file caching. ...

We've released an update to the Bomb Lab on the CS:APP site . An authentication key associated with each bomb prevents spoofing(from Za...

We are pleased to announce that the new Attack Lab is available on the CS:APP site . The Attack Lab was first offered to CMU students in...

What could a woman's wardrobe have to do with computer systems? This is a clever mnemonic devised by Geoff Kuenning of Harvey Mudd Col...

We've updated all of the lecture notes for CS:APP3e and posted them on the CS:APP3e instructor's site .

The Third Edition of Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective  came out in March.  The CS:APP web page  now contains information for...

We spent many of our 2014 hours writing and revising the book.  We feel it will bring the book up to date, and that the presentation of some...

We've gotten started on the third edition of CS:APP.  The biggest change will be that we will shift entirely to 64 bits.  It seems like ...

We've just released an update to the Bomb Lab on the CS:APP site . It fixes a bug caused by the fact that on some systems, hostname() ...

We've released a new lab, called the Cache Lab , that we've been using at CMU in place of the Performance Lab for a few semesters. I...

  I just returned from a trip to Peking University (PKU).  They have recently adopted CS:APP as the textbook for their course "Intro...