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When making changes to optimize part of a processor, it is often the case that speeding up one type of instruction comes at the cost of slowing down something else. for example, if we put in a complicated fast floating-point unit, that takes space, and something might have to be moved farther away from the middle to accommodate it, adding an extra cycle in delay to reach that unit. the basic amdahl's law equation does not take into account this trade-off. a. if the new fast floating-point unit speeds up floating-point operations by, on average, 2ă—, and floating-point operations take 20% of the original program's execution time, what is the overall speedup (ignoring the penalty to any other instructions)? b. now assume that speeding up the floating-point unit slowed down data cache accesses, resulting in a 1.5ă— slowdown (or 2/3 speedup). data cache accesses consume 10% of the execution time. what is the overall speedup now? c. after implementing the new floating-point operations, what percentage of execution time is spent on floating-point operations? what percentage is spent on data cache accesses?

Dereck works for long hours on his computer.  he frequently experiences physical strain by the end of the day because he does not follow an important rule of ergonomics with respect to the use of keyboards.  which of the following actions of dereck could lead to physical strain? a.  placing the keyboard exactly in front of him while typingb.  keeping hands and wrists straight while typingc.  using wrist pads throughout the dayd.  pounding at the keys on the keyboard while typinge.  resting his hands on the keyboard when he is not typing