phd-thesis/plan/to_introduce_early.md

Stuff that must be introduced early (intro/foundations)

Intro to CPUs

• ISA
• Assembly
• SIMD
• μarch:
  • frontend
  • ports
  • in-order/out-of-order
  • pipeline
  • Mop
  • μop
  • renamer
  • ROB
  • L1-residence
• HW counters

Foundations on code analyzers

• Define Cycles(K): retired instructions
• Define notion of bottleneck
• Static vs. dynamic
• PC
• ELF
• Basic block

State of the art

• Tools:
  • IACA
  • llvm-mca
  • Osaca
  • uops.info
  • UiCA
  • PMEvo