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I wish I could find a good text that talks about how removed from 'directly executing on hardware' you are. Modern [x86] processors are (as described) executin

I wish I could find a good text that talks about how removed from 'directly executing on hardware' you are. Modern [x86] processors are (as described) executing very much out of order or calculating things in parallel. I wish I could find something that spoke to the whole field of tricks at play. I'm sure there's a great depth of indirection I'll never understand.

matt_d 7y ago
The following (can be read in chronological order) give a pretty good idea: - J.E. Smith and G.S. Sohi, "The Microarchitecture of Superscalar Processors," Proc. IEEE, vol. 83 (1995) - ftp://ftp.cs.wisc.edu/sohi/papers/1995/ieee-proc.superscalar.pdf, http://www.eng.ucy.ac.cy/theocharides/Courses/ECE656/superscalar.pdf http://www.eng.ucy.ac.cy/theocharides/Courses/ECE656/supersc... - Tejas S. Karkhanis and James E. Smith. "A First-Order Superscalar Processor Model." (ISCA 2004) - http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.79.6017&rep=rep1&type=pdf http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.79.... - Stijn Eyerman, Lieven Eeckhout, Tejas Karkhanis, and James E. Smith. "A mechanistic performance model for superscalar out-of-order processors." ACM Trans. Comput. Syst. 27, 2 (2009) - http://www.elis.ugent.be/~leeckhou/papers/tocs09.pdf http://www.elis.ugent.be/~leeckhou/papers/tocs09.pdf - Maximilien B. Breughe, Stijn Eyerman, and Lieven Eeckhout. "Mechanistic analytical modeling of superscalar in-order processor performance." ACM Trans. Architec. Code Optim. 11, 4, Article 50 (2014) - https://users.elis.ugent.be/~leeckhou/papers/taco2015-breughe.pdf https://users.elis.ugent.be/~leeckhou/papers/taco2015-breugh... - "Modeling Superscalar Processor Memory-Level Parallelism", Sam Van den Steen and Lieven Eeckhout, IEEE Computer Architecture Letters (CAL), Vol 17, No 1 (2018) - https://users.elis.ugent.be/~leeckhou/papers/cal2018-MLP.pdf https://users.elis.ugent.be/~leeckhou/papers/cal2018-MLP.pdf - A whirlwind introduction to dataflow graphs - https://fgiesen.wordpress.com/2018/03/05/a-whirlwind-introduction-to-dataflow-graphs/ https://fgiesen.wordpress.com/2018/03/05/a-whirlwind-introdu...
- blitmap 7y ago
  Very much appreciated, sir :-)

matt_d 7y ago

The following (can be read in chronological order) give a pretty good idea: - J.E. Smith and G.S. Sohi, "The Microarchitecture of Superscalar Processors," Proc. IEEE, vol. 83 (1995) - ftp://ftp.cs.wisc.edu/sohi/papers/1995/ieee-proc.superscalar.pdf, http://www.eng.ucy.ac.cy/theocharides/Courses/ECE656/superscalar.pdf http://www.eng.ucy.ac.cy/theocharides/Courses/ECE656/supersc... - Tejas S. Karkhanis and James E. Smith. "A First-Order Superscalar Processor Model." (ISCA 2004) - http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.79.6017&rep=rep1&type=pdf http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.79.... - Stijn Eyerman, Lieven Eeckhout, Tejas Karkhanis, and James E. Smith. "A mechanistic performance model for superscalar out-of-order processors." ACM Trans. Comput. Syst. 27, 2 (2009) - http://www.elis.ugent.be/~leeckhou/papers/tocs09.pdf http://www.elis.ugent.be/~leeckhou/papers/tocs09.pdf - Maximilien B. Breughe, Stijn Eyerman, and Lieven Eeckhout. "Mechanistic analytical modeling of superscalar in-order processor performance." ACM Trans. Architec. Code Optim. 11, 4, Article 50 (2014) - https://users.elis.ugent.be/~leeckhou/papers/taco2015-breughe.pdf https://users.elis.ugent.be/~leeckhou/papers/taco2015-breugh... - "Modeling Superscalar Processor Memory-Level Parallelism", Sam Van den Steen and Lieven Eeckhout, IEEE Computer Architecture Letters (CAL), Vol 17, No 1 (2018) - https://users.elis.ugent.be/~leeckhou/papers/cal2018-MLP.pdf https://users.elis.ugent.be/~leeckhou/papers/cal2018-MLP.pdf - A whirlwind introduction to dataflow graphs - https://fgiesen.wordpress.com/2018/03/05/a-whirlwind-introduction-to-dataflow-graphs/ https://fgiesen.wordpress.com/2018/03/05/a-whirlwind-introdu...

blitmap 7y ago
Very much appreciated, sir :-)