Question: Refer to hardware double buffering (Figure below) and explain the effect of buffering on the runtime of the process if the process is I/O-bound and

Refer to hardware double buffering (Figure below) and explain the effect of buffering on the runtime of the process if the process is I/O-bound and requests characters at a much higher rate than the device can provide them. What is the effect if the process is compute-bound and rarely requests characters from the device?

Process Process Process Controller Controller Controller Data Device Device Device Process Reads

Process Process Process Controller Controller Controller Data Device Device Device Process Reads b, Controller Reads b;+1 Process Reads b-1 Controller Reads b; Unbuffered (c) (b) (a)

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