[mshockwave]

> (Intermediate)1. Adding to memory faster than adding memory to a register

I'm not familiar with Pentium but my guess is that memory store is relatively cheaper than load in many modern (out-of-order) microarchitectures.

> (Intermediate)14. Parallelization.

I feel like this is where compilers come into handy, because juggling critical paths and resource pressures at the same time sounds like a nightmare to me

> (Advanced)4. Interleaving 2 loops out of sync

Software pipelining!