January 2002
Intermediate to advanced
720 pages
26h 21m
English
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Intel Processor Hardware Performance
VTune, we discovered, is targeted specifically for programs that execute on Intel hardware, and provides a very detailed and informative analysis of program execution behavior on the Intel Pentium processor family. It turns out that this analysis is not as useful for programs executing on newer Intel hardware, such as the Pentium Pro, Pentium II, Pentium III, or Pentium IV. However, learning how to use this detailed information requires quite a bit of understanding about the way that Pentium (and Pentium Pro) processor chips work.
Intel IA-32 Architecture Evolution
The Intel IA-32 architecture is based on the original third-generation 32-bit 386 processor family. Today, the Intel 32-bit architecture is associated with Pentium (P5) and Pentium Pro, Pentium II, Pentium III, and Pentium IV processors (these four correspond to the P6 generation of Intel microprocessors). For example, the Pentium IV is a sixth-generation microprocessor (P6) running the Intel x86 instruction set. Hardware designers refer to the Intel x86 as a CISC (Complex Instruction Set Computer), a style of hardware that is no longer in vogue. Today, hardware designers generally prefer processor architectures based on RISC (Reduced Instruction Set Computers). The complex Intel x86 instruction set is a legacy of design decisions made twenty years ago at the dawn of the microprocessor age, when RISC concepts were not widely recognized. The overriding design consideration in the evolution ...
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