Chapter 10. Performance Considerations
The desire for performance drives both the software and hardware aspects of computer science and engineering. Given a hardware system with known performance limitations, we have several options: simply wait for results to emerge, slowly, using the existing software; attempt to optimize that software; or even develop new software based on more efficient algorithms specific to that platform. Similarly, given a software application with known performance limitations on existing hardware, we might attempt to optimize that hardware affordably, or seek a different system based on faster physical components or more efficient designs.
Although we look at some aspects of hardware optimization in this chapter, we ...
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