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• History of Early CISC Microprocessors
• A Comparison of Matrix Multipication Code
• CPU Performance
• CPU Performance
• The Execution Time Equation
• The Operating System Interface
• Architectural Styles
• Loop Unrolling
• Loop Unrolling
• Pipelining
• Register Renaming
• Register Renaming
• Register Renaming Performance
• Caching
• Caching
• Cache Addressing
• Cache Performance
• A Cache Example
• Tracing Replacement Algorithms
• Computer Architecture Bibliography