Why Modern CPUs Are Starving and What Can Be Done about It

Abstract

CPUs spend most of their time waiting for data to arrive. Identifying low-level bottlenecks-and how to ameliorate them-can save hours of frustration over poor performance in apparently well-written programs.

Keywords

CLOCKS
READ-WRITE MEMORY
DELAY
FREQUENCY
RANDOM ACCESS MEMORY
MULTICORE PROCESSING
BANDWIDTH
COSTS
CENTRAL PROCESSING UNIT
IMPEDANCE

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