Tricks of the Trade

The following are tricks of the programming trade that, although often ponderous in operation, can yield significant speedups for many common tasks. The following are tricks of the programming trade that, although often ponderous in operation, can yield significant speedups for many common tasks.

Hacker's Delight

Henry Warren's amazing book.

The Aggregate Magic Algorithms

Our little collection of hacks and pointers to other people's hacks.

Bit Twiddling Hacks

Sean Eron Anderson's collection.

HAKMEM

A collection of mostly low-level tricks and otherwise interesting ideas, some quite old.

The Mythical Man Month

Fred Books explains what he learned in developing OS360

Programming Pearls

Jon Bentley's book

My comments/code for Bresenham linear interpolation

Here's a quickie overview of the incremental differential stuff....