Week 6: Performance, Stack Frames, Intro to Linux
Class Recaps:
Monday
- Instruction level parallelism
- Read book chapter 4.10 and 4.15. (We will talk about 4.11 but you don't need to worry about details).
Tuesday
- Stack Frames
- Do ARMStackFrame WS
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Resources:
- Book chapter 2.8 covers the topic for ARMv8
- This webpage has a discussion of arm stack frames: https://azeria-labs.com/functions-and-the-stack-part-7/
Wednesday
- Syscalls
- Read book chapter 4.9, just pages 336-337.
Memory and Cache Intro
- Read ch 5.1-5.3. You can just skim 5.2 - don't need details.
Classroom slides/examples:
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