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Coffee and the L2 Cache

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My wife gave me a coffee grinder for my birthday. I've come a long way from instant coffee; I've now got the whole coffee pipeline: from whole beans, through the grinder, through the coffee maker, into the coffee pot, and into my mug.

Anyway, thinking about how the caffeine flows through all the different stages to get to me, it got me thinking about how data flows through the different parts of a computer to get to the registers.  Here's what I see:

Coffee... Data...
in the mug in registers
brewed in the coffee pot, waiting to be poured into the mug in the L2 Cache
coffee grinds, waiting to be brewed in physical memory
not-yet-ground coffee beans, sitting on the shelf In the pagefile on disk

Coffee-connoisseurs (or hardware folks), am I missing any rows?

Comments

  • Anonymous
    July 15, 2006
    Coffee in gut = data currently being processed by CPU
    Coffee being expelled = data being written back to disk?

    Geez, now I won't be able to drink coffee without pondering how I can optimize the process . . .
  • Anonymous
    July 15, 2006
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  • Anonymous
    July 15, 2006
    WCF/SOA

    Two geat posts by the Hosting man in Indigo, Steve Maines, on the ServiceHostFactory API,...
  • Anonymous
    July 16, 2006
    not-yet-ground coffee beans, sitting on the shelf? More like a coffee bean just planted in the soil!
  • Anonymous
    July 17, 2006
    You forgot to split the coffee from Cafeine (the interesting part) and the carrier (water).

    Data in the register
    Operations on the data floating in between the data.

    Something about the creating the coffee beans (programming) and the coffee machine etc.
  • Anonymous
    July 23, 2006
    Where does a latte fit into all of this :-)