I don't disagree with him on that, but there's really quite a bit of stuff in there about quasi-circuitry-like things: "machines" and "latches" and things like
In the next chapter, we'll investigate how to make machines that change over
time, which will be the basis for us to store information. From there it's
just a short hop to actual computers!
so I think that grounding abstract computation in something that can clearly be constructed in real life is actually very much a concern of the book, even if he's not planning to cover IEEE-754 denormals, the cost of TLB flushes, or strategies for reducing the bit error rate due to metastability when crossing clock domains.
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I don't disagree with him on that, but there's really quite a bit of stuff in there about quasi-circuitry-like things: "machines" and "latches" and things like
so I think that grounding abstract computation in something that can clearly be constructed in real life is actually very much a concern of the book, even if he's not planning to cover IEEE-754 denormals, the cost of TLB flushes, or strategies for reducing the bit error rate due to metastability when crossing clock domains.