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Suppose you invent some clever trick (cache, pipelining, special
instruction, parallelism)
- How good is it?
- When the trick is used, what speedup over the unenhanced case is achieved?
- How much good is that?
- For what fraction of the overall execution time can the trick be employed?
So what's the overall benefit?
Paul H J Kelly
Mon Nov 17 01:24:12 GMT 1997