Let’s summarize what we’ve been going through. About processors: Originally, processors had single processing units (i.e. single core processors) Eventually processors were built with several...
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Allow me to start this episode by clarifying another concept, namely that of mutual exclusion. Mutual exclusion is the idea that you have a certain...
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Note: the following is a modified and shortened version of the transcript Jim used for this video. This transcript has been revised for an article...
Now let’s have a look at how single-threaded and multi-threaded software works, and what are the differences. For this, we need to use an example,...
So we have seen that nowadays operating systems are multi-tasking, which means that they are able to run multiple processes (tasks) at the same time....
To answer the question from the article title, in short, “it depends” and cryptically “that’s not actually the question.” News broke last week about TSMC’s...
Software is a generic term to describe the applications that a general-purpose processor can execute. A program is similar to a recipe book: a list...
