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Penelope Phippen
July 09, 2016
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What is processor (brighton ruby edition)
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Transcript
What is Processor?
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3.days.ago
new DateTime( System.currentTime() - 3 * 24 * 3600 )
Thinking in terms of the domain
Instead of thinking in terms of the computer
This is one way we can measure abstraction
Amount of computers
Amount of computers
SQL Amount of computers
select * from sheep_parts
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SQL Amount of computers
SQL C Amount of computers
int main() { printf(“Hello\n”); return 0; }
Let’s look at one difference
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Human readable source code at execution time
Interpreted
Compiled
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(it’s a gnu)
(it’s a gnu)
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Source code separate at execution time
So why is C “low level”
John sort of stole my thunder
Hacker news has been lying to you
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Those earlier languages express similar ideas.
Ruby has an object model
C has a memory model
C Amount of computers
C Assembly Amount of computers
Memory is slow
The accumulator from baby encodes this concept
Register Tiny piece of memory in the processor that can
beaccessed very quickly
mov 3, $c mov 4, $d add $c, $d, $a
mov 3, $c mov 4, $d add $c, $d, $a
Execution
mov 3, $c mov 4, $d add $c, $d, $a
mov 3, $c mov 4, $d add $c, $d, $a
Instructions (do exactly one thing to the processor)
Operation mov 3, $c mov 4, $d add $c, $d,
$a
Operand mov 3, $c mov 4, $d add $c, $d,
$a
Operand mov 3, $c mov 4, $d add $c, $d,
$a
mov 3, $c mov 4, $d add $c, $d, $a
Operand Register reference
a: nil b: nil c: nil d: nil mov 3,
$c mov 4, $d add $c, $d, $a
a: nil b: nil c: 3 d: nil mov 3,
$c mov 4, $d add $c, $d, $a
a: nil b: nil c: 3 d: nil mov 3,
$c mov 4, $d add $c, $d, $a
a: nil b: nil c: 3 d: 4 mov 3,
$c mov 4, $d add $c, $d, $a
a: nil b: nil c: 3 d: 4 mov 3,
$c mov 4, $d add $c, $d, $a
a: 7 b: nil c: 3 d: 4 mov 3,
$c mov 4, $d add $c, $d, $a
(it’s a gnu)
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C Assembly Amount of computers
Assembly Binary Amount of computers
Let’s talk about how machine code gets executed
(one model)
Fetch
Decode
Execute
Retire
FDER
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0: 0x36010000 1: 0x03040501 2: 0x23813200 PC: 0 IR: <nil>
IR: 0x36010000
Decode
0x36010283
0x36010283 0x36: add
0x36010283 0x36: add 0x01: value 1
0x36010283 0x36: add 0x01: value 1 0x02: value 2
0x36010283 0x36: add 0x01: value 1 0x02: value 2 0x83:
register 3
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IR: 0x36010283 PC: 0 A: <nil> B: <nil> C: <nil>
Execute
IR: 0x36010283 PC: 0 A: <nil> B: <nil> C: <nil>
IR: 0x36010283 PC: 0 C: <nil>
IR: 0x36010283
IR: 0x36 01 02 83 10 2 3 +
Retire
IR: 0x36010283 PC: 0 A: <nil> B: <nil> C: <nil>
3
IR: 0x36010283 PC: 0 A: <nil> B: <nil> C: 3
3
IR: <nil> PC: 1 A: <nil> B: <nil> C: 3
3
0: 0x36010000 1: 0x03040501 2: 0x23813200 PC: 1
This process repeats
That’s how programs execute (kinda) (I’m still lying to you)
Fetch: get instruction from memory into processor
Decode: prep processor for instruction
Execute: do computation
Retire: results and cleanup
Thanks @samphippen
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