chapter one questions and answers #9

1st, what are the elements of a computer architecture?

• memory
• computation unit
• connections

2nd, what are some common alternate computer architectures?
(GPU)???

3rd, how does python abstract the underlying computer architecture?
Python have virtual machine, just like Java have a JVM

4th, what are some of the hurdles to make performant python code?

• Python got a GIL
• Python is a dynamic language
• python's abstraction makes it difficult to do some L1/L2 cache thing

5th, what are different types of performance problems?
???