# lec1

> What on earth? 

The first lecture has bee 50% syllabus 25% videos, 25% simple terminology; expect nothing interesting for this section

## Performace Options 
In general we have a few options to increase performace in software; pipelining, parallelism, prediction.

Parallelism/Pipelining 

* I'll just assume you know what this entail; one does many things at once; the other is like queues for processessing.

* Prediction 

Yes this means interpreting potential outcomes/inputs/outputs etc. __BRANCHING__. We try to predict potentiality and account for it ahead of time.
