hardware efficiency

Hardware efficiency deals with how data and structures of meaning are managed by the physical hardware.

Consider:

• central processing efficiency. This could entail multiple cores (like a hypercube).
• memory management. Should the hardware manage memory instead of the OS? YES.
• Storage management efficiency. Should you merely send updates to files (journaling) or re-write the whole file?
• Graphics processing efficiency.
• User I/O
• Communications