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Understanding Pipelining and Superscalar Execution

Posted by chrisd on from the read-hennessy-and-patterson-first dept.

Zebulon Prime writes "Hannibal over at Ars has just posted a new article on processor technology. The article uses loads of analogies and diagrams to explain the basics behind pipelining and superscalar execution, and it's actually kind of funny (for a tech article). It's billed as a basic introduction to the concepts, but as a CS student and programmer I found it really helpful. I think this article is a sequel to a previous one that was linked here a while ago."

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  1. Love those tongue-in-cheek jokes... by Cyclopedian · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    Our SUV, the Ars Extinction LE (if you put "LE" on the end of the name you can charge more), is selling like... well, it's selling like an SUV, which means it's doing pretty well. In fact, it was awarded Car and Driver's prestigious "Ridiculously Aggressive-looking Design of the Year" award, as well as the Global Climate Coalition's "Excellence in Environmental Innovation" award for its stunningly low 0.5 mpg rating. (In case it's not obvious, GCC is an "environmental" front group for the oil industry.)

    -Cyc

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    /.'s 10 Millionth