Suppose that you are working with a CISC machine using a 3 GHz clock (i.e., the clock ticks 3 billion times per second). This particular computer uses MASM-like instructions with the following timings:

add reg, mem 8 clock cycles (i.e., the ADD micro-program has 8 instructions) add reg, immed 3 clock cycles loop label 5 clock cycles 

Suppose that the following code fragment is used to sum elements of a numeric array. For this problem, assume that memory limitations are non-existent and that there is no limit to the size of the array.

 mov bx, 0 ;initialize sum mov ecx, MAX_SIZE ;initialize loop counter mov esi, OFFSET list ;initialize array pointer more: add bx,  ;add current list element 

 add , 2 ;move array pointer to next element 

loop more ;auto-decrement ecx, jump to more if ecx 0

After initialization, how many array elements can be processed in 2.9 ms? Round your answer to the nearest integer. Note that 1 ms. = 0.001 second.

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