Practice - Defining Performance
Practice Questions
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Define execution time.
💡 Hint: Consider what happens during the course of running a program.
What is throughput?
💡 Hint: Think about how many tasks can be completed in one hour.
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Interactive Quizzes
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What does execution time measure?
💡 Hint: Think about how you time a program from start to finish.
True or False: Throughput and execution time are the same.
💡 Hint: Reflect on whether they represent the same concept.
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Challenge Problems
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Calculate the execution time for a program that has 500,000 instructions, an average CPI of 2.0, and a clock cycle time of 0.1 seconds. What strategies can be employed to decrease this execution time?
💡 Hint: Work through the formula step by step.
If a CPU has a clock speed of 3 GHz, what is the clock cycle time? Calculate the performance if the instruction count is 2 million and the average CPI is 1.2.
💡 Hint: Look closely at the conversions and ensure you are correctly employing the formulas.
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