diff --git a/cst337/lec/lec1.md b/cst337/lec/lec1.md index e1d6af2..42a8820 100644 --- a/cst337/lec/lec1.md +++ b/cst337/lec/lec1.md @@ -1,13 +1,16 @@ # lec1 -> What on earth? \ +> What on earth? + The first lecture has bee 50% syllabus 25% videos, 25% simple terminology; expect nothing interesting for this section -## Performace Options \ +## Performace Options In general we have a few options to increase performace in software; pipelining, parallelism, prediction. -Parallelism/Pipelining \ +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 \ +* Prediction + Yes this means interpreting potential outcomes/inputs/outputs etc. __BRANCHING__. We try to predict potentiality and account for it ahead of time.