COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING
COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE
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Word length
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The size of cache memory
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The speed of the hard drive
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The rate the user clicks
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Detailed explanation-1: -Processor performance can be affected by clock speed, cache size and the number of cores the processor has.
Detailed explanation-2: -Cache performance depends on cache hits and cache misses, which are the factors that create constraints to system performance. Cache hits are the number of accesses to the cache that actually find that data in the cache, and cache misses are those accesses that don’t find the block in the cache.
Detailed explanation-3: -Cache memory is a large determinant of system performance. The larger the cache, the more instructions can be queued and carried out. Storing instructions in cache reduces the amount of time it takes to access that instruction and pass it to a CPU core.
Detailed explanation-4: -Three components of a computer that impact performance are random access memory (RAM), processor speed (CPU) and available hard drive space.