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Instruction sets and the machine model
What does the processor actually see?
Core · Module 04
Computer Architecture & Systems
What the abstraction is hiding. Performance lives here, and so does every bug that makes no sense at the language level.
By the end of this module
You can explain why the same code runs ten times faster with a different memory access pattern.
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02
Caches and the memory hierarchy
Why is memory the bottleneck rather than the CPU?
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Introduction to Computer Systems (CS:APP) ↗Carnegie Mellon University
Lecture videos, labs and slides, free. The labs are outstanding.
03
Pipelining, branch prediction, speculation
How does a processor do several things at once and still look sequential?
Quiz
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