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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.
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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
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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 ...
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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 ...