How long does it take to read Computer Organization and Design?
Computer Organization and Design by David A. Patterson takes about 14 hours 58 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 14 hours 58 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2004. 816 pages, about 224,400 words.
30 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 24 hours 56 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 14 hours 58 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 9 hours 21 minutes |
The page count is the median across 7 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
In addition to thoroughly updating every aspect of the text to reflect the most current computing technology, the third edition uses standard 32-bit MIPS 32 as the primary teaching ISA; presents the assembler-to-HLL translations in both C and Java; highlights the latest developments in architecture in Real Stuff sections: Intel IA-32, Power PC 604, Googles PC cluster, Pentium P4, SPEC CPU2000 benchmark suite for processors, SPEC Web99 benchmark for web servers, EEMBC benchmark for embedded systems, AMD Opteron memory hierarchy, AMD vs. 1A-64.
Subjects: Computer organization, Computer engineering, Computer interfaces, Computer architecture, System design, Computer science
