phd-thesis/plan/to_introduce_early.md

Stuff that must be introduced early (intro/foundations)

• Static vs. dynamic

• PC

• ELF

• ISA

• Assembly

• SIMD

• Basic block

• μarch:

  • frontend
  • ports
  • in-order/out-of-order
  • pipeline
  • Mop
  • μop
  • renamer
  • ROB
  • L1-residence

• HW counters

• Tools:

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

• Define Cycles(K): retired instructions

• Define notion of bottleneck