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		JBiserkov on July 4, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: CPU Utilization Is Wrong (2017) Reminds me of the old saying "A computer is a device that moves data around and occasionally does computations with it." think network/disk -> RAM -> L3 -> L2 -> L1 -> registers

moonchild on July 4, 2023 [–]

CPUs can broadly be considered to have three major components:

- Memory subsystem

- Frontend

- Backend

That is:

- Get the data to work on

- Figure out what work to do on it

- Actually do the work.

These are in order of decreasing importance. The von neumann bottleneck is real.

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