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- Disassembling 
   - as a tool for debugging
   - as a tool in virus-checking/investigation


- Compilation Process
  - Lexical Analysis, Syntatic Analysis, Semantic Analysis,
   Intermediate Code and Optimization, Assembly Program
  - Linker
  - Interpretation vs Translation (and hybrids like Java)
  - Many-to-One (C++/Java/etc) Chapter 8  
  - One-to-One (Assembly)
  - Efficiencies


- Trends in Computer Science/Technology
  - CPU speed
  - Memory speed
  - Memory sizes  
  - Cores/Threading
  - Moore's Law


- Memory Hierarchy
  - Why does it exist?
  - Registers, Cache, RAM, Secondary Storage, Tertiary Storage
 
- Endian

- Principles of programs:
  locality
  spacial
  temporal


Chapter 6
- instruction formats and tradeoffs
     programming ease
     # of instruction (size of instruction set)
     size of instructions
     size of immediate values
     fetch/decode speeds
     hardware size

- memory addressing
     immediate
     direct register reference
     indirect through register
     direct memory
     indirect memory reference