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Reminds me of the old saying "A computer is a device that moves data around and occasionally does computations with it." think network/disk -> RAM -> L3 -> L2
by JBiserkov 3y ago
Reminds me of the old saying
"A computer is a device that moves data around and occasionally does computations with it."
think network/disk -> RAM -> L3 -> L2 -> L1 -> registers
- moonchild 3y agoCPUs can broadly be considered to have three major components: - Memory subsystem - Frontend - Backend That is: - Get the data to work on - Figure out what work to do on it - Actually do the work. These are in order of decreasing importance. The von neumann bottleneck is real.