Nov 13

Questions about anything?

context

Where are we and what are we doing?

• This week : attack lab due today (I've posted an explanation of phase 1)
• We're finishing up x86 assembly code stuff (chap 3 in text)

I'll post an explanation of the attack lab phases 1 - 4 tomorrow or so that you can compare with your work.

I've had some questions about course expectations, particularly "how much of the labs do I need to do"? Let's talk about this.

Coming up next :

• "locality" and caches (chap 6) ; HW4 is now posted ; due Tuesday
• processes (kill-9, signals, forking, ...) (chap 8) ; HW5 on that will be due Fri, shell lab Tues before Thanksgiving.

We're skipping past some of the material in the CMU lectures & textbook ... just don't have time. (Though I may wave my hands over some of it today just for fun, you're not responsible for it.)

new stuff

• memory hierarchy
• cache

... to take a look at by Tuesday. (Though I think in this case you're better of with the textbook - chap 6.)

maybe

• optimization
• linking

... cool stuff that we don't have time to do more than wave at as it goes by.