Exam 2: Performance Issues

The __________ is a relatively small fast memory interposed between a larger,slower memory and the logic that accesses the larger memory.

An increase in clock rate means that individual operations are executed _____.

At the most fundamental level,the speed of a processor is dictated by the pulse frequency produced by the clock,measured in cycles per second,or _________.

Raw speed is far more important than how a processor performs when executing a given application.

Measures such as MIPS and MFLOPS have proven adequate to evaluating the performance of processors.