Signed-off-by: Junchang Wang <junchangwang@xxxxxxxxx>
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Hi Paul,
This is the only patch for Chapter CPU. Please take a look.
Thanks,
--Junchang
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cpu/overheads.tex | 4 ++--
cpu/overview.tex | 2 +-
2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/cpu/overheads.tex b/cpu/overheads.tex
index 2474cfe..17b120b 100644
--- a/cpu/overheads.tex
+++ b/cpu/overheads.tex
@@ -155,7 +155,7 @@ displayed in
Table~\ref{tab:cpu:Performance of Synchronization Mechanisms on 4-CPU 1.8GHz AMD Opteron 844 System}.
This system's clock period rounds to 0.6\,ns.
Although it is not unusual for modern microprocessors to be able to
-retire multiple instructions per clock period, the operations's costs are
+retire multiple instructions per clock period, the operations' costs are
nevertheless normalized to a clock period in the third column, labeled
``Ratio''.
The first thing to note about this table is the large values of many of
@@ -360,7 +360,7 @@ It is clear that the combination of speculative execution and cloud
computing needs more than a bit of rework!
A fifth hardware optimization is large caches, allowing individual
-CPUs to operate on larger datasets without incuring expensive cache
+CPUs to operate on larger datasets without incurring expensive cache
misses.
Although large caches can degrade energy efficiency and cache-miss
latency, the ever-growing cache sizes on production microprocessors
diff --git a/cpu/overview.tex b/cpu/overview.tex
index 071cf7c..9e91a7b 100644
--- a/cpu/overview.tex
+++ b/cpu/overview.tex
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ where the race always goes to the swiftest.
\ContributedBy{Figure}{fig:cpu:CPU Performance at its Best}{Melissa Broussard}
\end{figure}
-Although there are a few CPU-bound benchmarks that approach the ideal
+Although there are a few CPU-bound benchmarks that approach the ideal case
shown in Figure~\ref{fig:cpu:CPU Performance at its Best},
the typical program more closely resembles an obstacle course than
a race track.
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