Topics that were not covered in detail in Goel’s exams

• Virtual memory (VPN → PPN address translation)
• Multi-level page tables
• TLB miss handling (HW vs SW)
• Tiling/blocking implementations + tiling miss rate
• Garbage collection algorithms
• Store buffers
• Software prefetch implementation
• MCS Lock implementation

Performance Definitions

• Throughput vs latency
• Throughput calculation
• Latency calculation
• Degrading performance

CPU Architectures

• Size of int
• Size of double or long
• Size of pointer
• Size of word