Preparation for Lecture 8
Chapter 6 covers performance bottlenecks (the "slowest" link in the
design of a system, in terms of speed), multilevel memories (using
caching to avoid penalties of using slower storage), and
scheduling (running tasks in an order that reduces their total
completion time or some other performance metric). You should read
6.A, 6.B, and 6.C.4, which is relevant to DP1. Some of the
material in 6.B you have seen in 6.004, so it should be a quick
read.
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