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Visualizing CPU Pipelining (2024)(timmastny.com)
23 points by flipacholas 3 hours ago | 6 comments
inetknght an hour ago | parent | next [-]

The best presentation I've seen about CPU performance related to pipelining, branch prediction, and speculative execution was Chandler Carruth's "Going Nowhere Faster" presentation at CppCon 2017 [0]. I do recommend watching the whole presentation, but if you watch nothing else then just watch the 5 minutes or so from the linked timestamp.

[0]: https://youtu.be/2EWejmkKlxs?t=2511

jhallenworld 17 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Now do a dynamic scheduling out of order engine with renaming, 20 pipes, speculative execution and hundreds of instructions in flight. I guess you could make a multi-person game for this.

risingedge an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

If anyone is interested, at https://sonic-rv.ics.jku.at/ we built an educational platform for web-based simulation and visualization of RISC-V processor architectures.

Our pipeline visualization is reconstructed from real RTL traces (you can run your on programs which are simulated using GHDL).

Under examples you can find some different architectures based on the Harris&Harris book on computer architecture.

empiricus an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Maybe it's just me, but the visualizations do not help me at all.

artemonster an hour ago | parent [-]

I am always puzzled by such articles - its actually very well made, drawings are good, little interactive pipeline animations are fine. But in order to follow it you must already know and understand what its writeen about and if you dont - the content is just noise for you.

cogman10 43 minutes ago | parent [-]

The article does say what it expects you to know before reading. However, it has a dead link to the knowledge it wants you to know.