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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. tl;dr by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Cliff Click talks about why it's almost impossible to tell what an x86 chip is really doing to your code

    tl;dr
    Dont care... because I believe in abstraction!

  2. Steve Jobs shits by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    What do you Apple dick smokers think of your god now?

  3. Re:Code in high-level by Inthewire · · Score: -1, Troll

    Have you considered taking an English class? Your classes WERE Java-centric.

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