18 Questions
Which optimization technique aims to reduce miss penalty?
Critical word first and early restart
What is the purpose of higher associativity in a cache system?
To reduce miss rate
Why is addressing translation avoided during indexing of the cache?
To reduce miss penalty
What is a common cause of cache miss referred to as coherency?
Coherency miss
How does a multilevel cache system contribute to reducing miss penalty?
By providing additional cache levels
In cache memory, which type uses one transistor per bit to store a bit?
DRAM
What is the purpose of a hypervisor in a virtual machine environment?
Manages instances of virtual machines
How does hardware virtualization benefit system administrators?
Allows placement of multiple VMs on the same physical server
In assembly language, what is the purpose of translation?
To convert source code to object code for execution
What does a pure assembly language consist of?
Each statement producing exactly one machine instruction
When is translation needed in assembly language?
When a program can be directly executed in the source language
What is the role of translators in programming languages?
Converting source programs to target languages
What is the main advantage of utilizing multiple processors and disks in a system?
Improving performance and increasing throughput
Which principle refers to the tendency of programs to reuse data and instructions they recently used?
Principle of locality
Why should systems favor frequent and common cases over infrequent cases?
To prioritize faster execution of common tasks
What is the main purpose of instruction-level parallelism via pipelining in processors?
To enhance performance by executing more instructions simultaneously
Which type of locality predicts that recently accessed data will be accessed again soon?
Temporal locality
How does taking advantage of parallelism in systems typically impact performance?
It improves performance by leveraging parallel processing
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