Practice - Instruction Count vs. Instruction Length
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Practice Questions
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What is an accumulator in computing?
💡 Hint: Think about where temporary results are kept in a program.
Define instruction count.
💡 Hint: How many commands are processed during operation?
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Interactive Quizzes
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What does the instruction count refer to?
💡 Hint: Consider how to measure the operations in a program.
Is an accumulator necessary in one-address instructions?
💡 Hint: Think about how values are processed.
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Challenge Problems
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How would you optimize the following computation (A + B) * (C + D) using both one-address and two-address instruction formats? Provide a detailed comparison.
💡 Hint: Analyze each step in terms of loading and storing.
Develop a simple program simulating a zero-address instruction approach. Explain how this differs in terms of stack usage from the one-address method.
💡 Hint: Visualize how stacks operate and consider the efficiency.
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