6.033 Spring 2008: 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. Some of the material in 6.B you have seen in 6.004, so it should be a quick read.

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