Computer Systems

Attributions. Much content is from USC CS 356 and Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective.

• Inspecting Assembly
• Structs and Unions
• Buffer Overflow Attacks
• Base Frame Pointer
• Iron Law of Processor Performance
• ARM Architecture
• Latency and Throughput
• Memory Wall
• Principles of Locality
• Memory Hierarchy
• Caching
• Virtual Memory
• Virtual Address Space and Physical Address Space
• Page Size and Address Translations
• Translation Look-aside Buffers
• Page Faults
• Cache and Virtual Memory
• Processes and Threads
• Memory Allocation
• Heap (Computer Systems)
• Parallelism
• Propagation Delay
• Pipelining
• Meltdown and Spectre