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# lec1
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> What on earth?
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The first lecture has bee 50% syllabus 25% videos, 25% simple terminology; expect nothing interesting for this section
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## Performace Options
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In general we have a few options to increase performace in software; pipelining, parallelism, prediction.
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Parallelism/Pipelining
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* I'll just assume you know what this entail; one does many things at once; the other is like queues for processessing.
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* Prediction
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Yes this means interpreting potential outcomes/inputs/outputs etc. __BRANCHING__. We try to predict potentiality and account for it ahead of time.
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