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Software support

- Popular languages today support the fiction of a simple programming model based on cache-less von Neuman architecture. However, modern machines have caches and virtual memory. It is important in terms of performance to arrange computations so that cache locality is preserved. A motivation for the course should follow here to make it obvious for the student, why he/she needs this knowledge...



Darius Burschka 2002-01-20