Chapter 6. Memory Organization and Access
This chapter describes the basic components that make up a computer system: the CPU, memory, I/O, and the bus that connects them. Although you can write software without this knowledge, writing great, high-performance code requires an understanding of this material.
This chapter begins by discussing bus organization and memory organization. These two hardware components may have as large a performance impact on your software as the CPU’s speed. Knowing about memory performance characteristics, data locality, and cache operation can help you design software that runs as fast as possible. Writing great code ...
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