A computer employed in arithmetic processing uses a software division routine. A program runs for two minutes
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A computer employed in arithmetic processing uses a software division routine. A program runs for two minutes on this machine with division taking 60% of the total time. If we wish to add a dedicated division unit in order to increase the performance of the computer by a factor of two, how much faster do we have to make the hardware division unit than the existing division mechanism?
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Computer Organization And Architecture Themes And Variations
ISBN: 9781111987046
1st Edition
Authors: Alan Clements
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