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After the multi-

Just what does it mean to have a multi-

Bubbles in the pipeline? Some of the basic operations at the heart of the

How does branch prediction speed up operations? Matt Godbolt continues the deep dive into the inner workings of the

Matt Godbolt continues the story of the

Relatively speedy-to-access cache saves your computer having to trudge over to the RAM, but with multiple levels of cache ...

Modern

How does an operating system juggle different programs? Dr Steve Bagley explains Context Switching.

Walk around inside a working

You can optimise for speed, power consumption or memory use & tiny changes can have a negligible or huge impact, but what ...

Apple's latest M1 chip is two older chips bolted together, Dr. Steve Bagley explains how they made it work the same as a single ...

How do

We've all heard of web browser caches, but why does a super fast modern

Spectre and Meltdown showed up holes in the hardware implementation of

Bringing together some of the concepts from the series on

How did punch card systems work? Professor Brailsford delves

After our password cracking video people wanted to see "Beast" the machine Mike used. The team have been improving the setup ...

2GHz ≠ 2GHz - Well sometimes! Dr Steve Bagley on why the clock cycles of a

Multitasking is a hoax - clever techniques mean that your

We take multithreaded code for granted, but what's needed to make it work properly? We need two Dr Steve Bagleys to illustrate ...