i'd like to see the source of your "P4 executes 1 instruction per cycle" or perhaps clarify on what you mean by "executes"...
because even after a basic architecture course in college your would realize that all modern processors have multiple functional units which allow for much more than a single or even 3 instructions to be on the fly in a processor. I took my graduate architecture course from someone who was on the design team of the P4 and he eluded to us that the P4 has something like 130ish instructions on the fly at any given time, not just 1...
I teach at the John's Hopkins Center For Talented Youth every summer, which hosts some of the brightest 8th and 9th graders in the nation participating in enrichment classes. I use open source software exclusively for my courses, and by the end every one of them can use a linux machine proficiently as well as working moderately profficiently in several languages, ruby being the new one i'm going to introduce this summer. If any of you have kids, send them to this program if they have an aptitude for computing. Its not a "computer camp" but rather something where they actually learn!
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i'd like to see the source of your "P4 executes 1 instruction per cycle" or perhaps clarify on what you mean by "executes"...
because even after a basic architecture course in college your would realize that all modern processors have multiple functional units which allow for much more than a single or even 3 instructions to be on the fly in a processor. I took my graduate architecture course from someone who was on the design team of the P4 and he eluded to us that the P4 has something like 130ish instructions on the fly at any given time, not just 1...
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I teach at the John's Hopkins Center For Talented Youth every summer, which hosts some of the brightest 8th and 9th graders in the nation participating in enrichment classes. I use open source software exclusively for my courses, and by the end every one of them can use a linux machine proficiently as well as working moderately profficiently in several languages, ruby being the new one i'm going to introduce this summer. If any of you have kids, send them to this program if they have an aptitude for computing. Its not a "computer camp" but rather something where they actually learn!