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Q&A #37 (2023-12-04)
Answers to questions from the last Q&A thread.
42:06
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November 2023
A Few Quick Notes
No math November, transcripts, annual subscriptions, etc.
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CPU Front End Basics
In order to extract parallelism from the instruction stream, a modern CPU has to fetch and decode instructions well in advance of when they are actually…
31:09
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Q&A #36 (2023-11-27)
Answers to questions from the last Q&A thread.
43:33
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Linking Directly to ASM for Experimentation
If we want to test specific aspects of a CPU's behavior, we need to take our extracted ASM and assemble it into a linkable library.
48:07
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Q&A #35 (2023-11-20)
Answers to questions from the last Q&A thread.
50:27
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Analyzing Dependency Chains
It's time to finish our analogy and go from laundry room analysis to CPU analysis.
29:06
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Q&A #34 (2023-11-13)
Answers to questions from the last Q&A thread.
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Intuiting Latency and Throughput
Although they may seem highly technical, you've already experienced both concepts - and why they matter - if you've ever done a load of laundry.
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Q&A #33 (2023-11-06)
Answers to questions from the last Q&A thread.
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Inspecting Loop Assembly
To understand the performance of our high-level code, we must first identify and extract the critical assembly language sections from the compiled…
32:31
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October 2023
Q&A #32 (2023-10-30)
Answers to questions from the last Q&A thread.
14:01
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