The tag has no wiki summary.

learn more… | top users | synonyms

0
votes
1answer
46 views

Dynamic loading vs. dynamic linking?

What is the difference between dynamic loading and dynamic linking? Both systems seem to allow shared libraries, but I am struggling to differentiate between them.
0
votes
1answer
64 views

Finding cache block transfer time in a 3 level memory system

Following question was asked in one of entrance exams for a graduation programme. Please help me try to solve it : A computer system has an L1 cache, an L2 cache, and a main memory unity ...
3
votes
2answers
113 views

How DMA improves I/O operation efficiency?

I am reading Computer Architecture & Organization by William Stallings to understand I/O operations. Stallings pretty well explains why Programmed I/O (CPU keeps checking the I/O module register ...
1
vote
1answer
63 views

categories of registers and and storage in them

The Wikipedia article on processor registers mentions: Address registers hold addresses and are used by instructions that indirectly access primary memory. Which addresses does this sentence ...