On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 08:36:25AM -0500, Vladimir N. Makarov wrote: > o Muchnik book is a fat one. Muchnick's book is rather encyclopedia > of optimizations and can be considered as collection of articles with > many details (sometimes too many). But some themes (like RA and > scheduling) are described not deep.
Also, as has been mentioned, many of his algorithms are buggy (I think it came from describing them all in his own artificial language that he had no compiler for). I suppose that if you *really* understand his text, you can debug his algorithms.