Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective, Glob

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I would highly recommend this book to anyone who studies computer science, without doubt. However I have read previously that others said the international edition has lower quality, so I had intended to purchase the North American edition, but it wasn't available, and I couldn't wait any longer, so I had to re-order and buy this one instead.Like others said:- the book has several loose pages that fall out easily, you have to carefully glue it back, but it's extremely hard to do a nice job on your own- the printing quality is a bit poor, not very sharp, as font is small, it can be difficult to read- sometimes you can easily see the pink shade leaks out of the blue shade due to the printing setting- paper quality is a bit too thin, but this is not a big deal over all...- some exercises have WRONG answers. This is very annoying and intolerable. Why would you provide a poorer quality for students outside of USA?FINAL VERDICT: if you have a way to buy the North American Edition, DO NOT buy this one.

Excellent summary of everything you need to know on program execution at low level. Contains abundance of exercises to get practical insight on each topic. I would recommend it to anyone who is into programming of any kind.

This "global edition" is full of errors in the practice problems and solutions because the original problems from the North American edition have been arbitrarily changed. Thus, it is impossible to use this edition to learn the material because you will never know whether your answer is correct or not. You're better off paying the higher price of the North American edition.

The content is different from the original edition:1. the excercises are different2. the solutions contain errors3. there are two Malaysian contributors not listed on the cover, so spamming