A Crash Course in Modern Hardware

Topics

JVM,

Virtual Machines,

Runtimes,

Java,

Code Analysis,

Caching,

Languages,

Debugging,

Profilers,

Clustering & Caching,

Architecture,

Programming,

Technology,

Infrastructure,

Performance & Scalability,

Multi-core,

Hardware Integration,

JVM Language Summit,

x86

In this presentation from the JVM Languages Summit 2009, Cliff Click discusses the Von Neumann architecture, CISC vs RISC, the rise of multicore, Instruction-Level Parallelism (ILP), pipelining, out-of-order dispatch, static vs dynamic ILP, performance impact of cache misses, memory performance, memory vs CPU caching, examples of memory/CPU cache interaction, and tips for improving performance.

•  By  Cliff Click on Jan 12, 2010,
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