Data Structures in Practice

A Hardware-Aware Approach for System Software Engineers

From Cache Behavior to Real-World Performance

Danny Jiang

Draft v0p4 - December 2025

Complete Book:

• 20 Chapters organized into 5 Parts
• 6 Appendices with exercises and reference materials
• ~99,200 words (~400 pages)
• Comprehensive coverage from memory hierarchy to embedded systems

Licensed under CC BY 4.0