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chapter one questions and answers #9

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csrgxtu opened this issue Feb 27, 2018 · 0 comments

csrgxtu commented Feb 27, 2018

1st, what are the elements of a computer architecture?

memory
computation unit
connections

2nd, what are some common alternate computer architectures?
(GPU)???

3rd, how does python abstract the underlying computer architecture?
Python have virtual machine, just like Java have a JVM

4th, what are some of the hurdles to make performant python code?

Python got a GIL
Python is a dynamic language
python's abstraction makes it difficult to do some L1/L2 cache thing

5th, what are different types of performance problems?
???

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