Evaluations

Midterm October 21, 2025 7:00 PM (EDT) - 20%

Lab 1 due September 21, 2025 - 5%

Lab 2 due October 12, 2025 - 9%

Lab 5 due November 30, 2025 - 10%

Final December 18, 2025 2:00 PM (EST) (40%)

Resources

1. "Why Computer Systems Programming?" 2024 Fall ECE454 Section 1 (University of Toronto)

Lectures

1. What is Performance?

2. CPU Architectures

3. Profiling and Measurement

4. Compiler Optimizations

5. Program Optimizations

6. Memory Hierarchy

7. Cache Optimization

8. Virtual Memory Prefetching