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Friday Mar 14, 2008
AMD64 architecture documentation
Documentation on the AMD64 architecture.
Posted at 04:01PM Mar 14, 2008 by Darryl Gove in Sun |
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Darryl Gove is a senior staff engineer in the Sun compiler team. He works on analysis and optimisation of applications and benchmarks for current and future architectures. He is the author of the books Solaris Application Programming, and The Developer's Edge, a contributor to the book OpenSPARC Internals and a regular source of articles for the Developer Portal.
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