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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.