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Cliff Click's Crash Course In Modern Hardware

Posted by timothy on from the first-there-were-the-dinosaurs dept.

Lord Straxus writes "In this presentation (video) from the JVM Languages Summit 2009, Cliff Click talks about why it's almost impossible to tell what an x86 chip is really doing to your code due to all of the crazy kung-fu and ninjitsu it does to your code while it's running. This talk is an excellent drill-down into the internals of the x86 chip, and it's a great way to get an understanding of what really goes on down at the hardware and why certain types of applications run so much faster than other types of applications. Dr. Cliff really knows his stuff!"

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  1. Fast forward... by LostCluster · · Score: 5, Informative

    I can't say I've WTFV like I usually RTFA before you get to see it... but I can tell you this: The first four minutes of the video are spent asking which topic the room wants to see. No need to watch that part. Then it gets more interesting.

    1. Re:Fast forward... by Brian+Gordon · · Score: 5, Informative

      A little javascript-fu reveals that the video player points to a file (at http://flv.thruhere.net/presentations/09-sep-JVMperformance.flv) on some poor guy's machine through a dynamic DNS service! I hope somebody grabbed a copy before he (or slashdot) took his server down.

    2. Re:Fast forward... by Brian+Gordon · · Score: 5, Informative

      You've done it! Interested slashdotters can download the video file at this link:

      http://67.202.36.223/presentations/09-sep-JVMperformance.flv.

      Good detective work, partner!