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Caching and Variable Conversion Quiz

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In the context of caching, which of the following is not crucial to program performance?

Caching virtual addresses (correct)

Caching virtual memory pages

Caching virtual address translations

Caching portions of physical memory

For which values of CONSTANT can X not be equal to Z in the provided code snippet?

For large negative values of CONSTANT (e.g., > -100)

For small negative values of CONSTANT (e.g., < -1,000,000,000) (correct)

For large positive values of CONSTANT (e.g., >1,000,000,000)

For small positive values of CONSTANT (e.g., < 100)

In a system with specific disk characteristics, what is the maximum number of page faults per second that can be serviced?

100

77 (correct)

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If a parent process forks a child process, which resources might they need to synchronize access to prevent unexpected behavior?

Malloc’ed memory Signup and view all the answers

According to Mr. Fred's statement, if one of a process’s memory addresses is bigger than a second one, then its corresponding value must appear before the second one’s value in physical memory. True or False?

False Signup and view all the answers

Which of the following is NOT a universal property of reader-writer locks?

A writer waiting for an RW lock will get preference over subsequent read requests. Signup and view all the answers

What does 'starvation' refer to in relation to threads?

A thread waiting for a lock indefinitely. Signup and view all the answers

How does x86 assembly store the return value when a function is finished?

By convention, it is always in %eax. Signup and view all the answers

What would be an effect of allocating more bits to the exponent part in IEEE floating point representation by taking them from the fraction part?

You could represent both larger and smaller numbers, but with less precision. Signup and view all the answers

What will happen when you attempt to compile, link, and run the provided code snippet?

"It will sometimes print “0” and sometimes print “1” Signup and view all the answers