chapter one questions and answers #9
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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?
???