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- Architecture is about appropriate design
- As architectures get more sophisticated, so must benchmarks
- Make the common case fast, the fast case common
- Amdahl's law: speedup is hard, scaleup is easier
- Read up on the background
- read the textbook
- look at the course web page for pointers to latest exciting developments in computer architecture
- Eg the WWW Computer Architecture Page,
http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~arch/www/
- Eg Jon "Hannibal" Stokes's articles on
http://www.arstechnica.com/cpu/index.html