The registers inside the CPU, the machine code instruction set, and the ways in which the instructions interact with the registers and status flags are all intertwined. As you may recall, one of my ...

Java compilers take center stage in this second article in the JVM performance optimization series. Eva Andreasson introduces the different breeds of compiler and compares performance results from ...

Halt and Catch Fire is an idiom referring to a machine code instruction that causes the computer's CPU to cease meaningful operation, requiring a restart. Advertisment Digitisation of the way we ...