Chapter 3

A Friendly Country Road Race

Now that we’ve experienced some of the thrills of pushing our high performance sports car toward its peak performance in a synthetic, limited risk environment of a closed course, let’s move on in our learning. Let’s see what it’s like to operate it in a still somewhat simple, but more realistic environment. We want to begin to understand the ways we can utilize the coprocessor’s top performing features versus what is available on the processor. In this case, think of it as a friendly race between vehicles with different strengths on open country roads of different types. We’ll encounter some bumps and obstacles that our competitor car can better navigate, as well as straightaways and turns optimal for our ...

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