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A Tour of Computer Systems​

Even though we made a substantial improvement to a major part of the system, our net speed up was significantly less than the speedup for the one part.

Integer arithmetic, always follows a principle: the smaller extends to the larger. short -> unsigned short -> int -> unsigned int

Float IEEE754 ：https://blog.csdn.net/K346K346/article/details/50487127

The file must contain a main function

CF (unsigned) t < (unsigned) aUnsigned overflow \ ZF (t == 0)Zero \ SF (t < 0)Negative \ OF (a<0==b<0)&&(t<0!=a<0)Signed overflow

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Original and optimized code to compute element i, k of matrix product for fixed-length arrays.The compiler performs these optimizations automatically. Original and optimized code to compute the element i, k of matrix product for fixed-length arrays.The compiler performs these optimizations automatically.

Understanding Pointers

  • Every pointer has an associated type. The special void *type represents a generic pointer.
  • Every pointer has a value. This value is an address of some object of the designated type. The specialNULL(0) value indicates that the pointer does not point anywhere.
  • Pointers are created with the ‘&’ operator.uses the leaq instruction to compute the expression value, since this instruction is designed to compute the addressof a memory reference.
  • Pointers are dereferenced with the ‘*’ operator. The result is a value having the type associated with the pointer.
  • Arrays and pointers are closely related. Array referencing (e.g.,a[3]) has the exact same effect as pointer arithmetic and dereferencing (e.g.,*(a+3)).
  • Casting from one type of pointer to another changes its type but not its value.
  • Pointers can also point to functions.