Re:Some Assembly Required: An approachable introduction to a...
by mhh__ on Tuesday June 28, 2022 @01:00PM
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Not great not terrible. Analogies aren't that useful IMO, so it's cute but might not be a useful pedagogical aid.
Conceptual flaws (mainly down the line rather than introductory):
One issue with it down the line is that processors spend a lot of their design budgets avoiding carting memory around. You don't have to mention that explicitly but in my skim reading I would've (if I were writing it) tried to emphasize something more akin to a postal sorting room than a warehouse as per se.
Maybe that's too advanced, but I understood it when I was 18 or 19 so YMMV.
One interesting demo is to see how much assembly you can fit in a single memory access latency.
Conceptual flaws (mainly down the line rather than introductory):
One issue with it down the line is that processors spend a lot of their design budgets avoiding carting memory around. You don't have to mention that explicitly but in my skim reading I would've (if I were writing it) tried to emphasize something more akin to a postal sorting room than a warehouse as per se.
Maybe that's too advanced, but I understood it when I was 18 or 19 so YMMV.
One interesting demo is to see how much assembly you can fit in a single memory access latency.