Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder2.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Retirement hobby (was Re: 80286 protected mode) Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2024 06:55:20 GMT Organization: Institut fuer Computersprachen, Technische Universitaet Wien Lines: 18 Message-ID: <2024Oct24.085520@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> References: <2024Oct6.150415@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> <86y12uy8ku.fsf@linuxsc.com> <86zfmwvs5w.fsf@linuxsc.com> <86sesmvqu1.fsf@linuxsc.com> Injection-Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2024 08:58:12 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="7768cb5d541a9df3ebd05ea3e9dee0ab"; logging-data="2658638"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/nJhF3/C27duAdCggFx4O3" Cancel-Lock: sha1:EZhtZQWgQrgnCNfDCM3NBoqfi+w= X-newsreader: xrn 10.11 Bytes: 2076 Tim Rentsch writes: >Terje Mathisen writes: >> Probably not a book but I would consider writing a series of blog >> posts similar to that, now that I am about to retire: > >You could try writing one blog post a month on the subject. By >this time next year you will have plenty of material and be well >on your way to putting a book together. (First drafts are always >the hardest part...) One thing I have thought of is a wiki of optimization techniques that contains descriptions of the techniques and case studies, but I have not yet implemented this idea. - anton -- 'Anyone trying for "industrial quality" ISA should avoid undefined behavior.' Mitch Alsup,