When I picked up this book I was feeling pretty depressed having just waded through three very disappointing books. I noticed neither the publisher nor the authors' names. The authors have taken their experience of writing for small memory machines and extracted a couple of dozen patterns. The book deals with the problems of programming in a memory constrained environment.
Memory is taken in the wide sense to cover everything from cache to backing store but that is it.
The main sections are Small Architecture, Secondary Storage, Compression, Small Data Structures and Memory Allocation. Like reading many books on Patterns, your first reaction maybe that you already knew most of it. I am very glad that I got to review it myself. Last Update - 11 September 2001. All rights reserved.