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Not great not terrible. Analogies aren't that useful IMO, so it's cute but might not be a useful pedagogical aid.

Conceptual flaws (mainly down the line rather than introductory):

One issue with it down the line is that processors spend a lot of their design budgets avoiding carting memory around. You don't have to mention that explicitly but in my skim reading I would've (if I were writing it) tried to emphasize something more akin to a postal sorting room than a warehouse as per se.

Maybe that's too advanced, but I understood it when I was 18 or 19 so YMMV.

One interesting demo is to see how much assembly you can fit in a single memory access latency.



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