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their products, in hardware or software, which permit a specific
benchmark to execute quickly but don't offer similar advantages to
general tasks.
Power consumption is another measurement that is important
in modern computers. Power efficiency can often be traded for speed
or lower cost. The typical measurement in this case is MIPS/W
(millions of instructions per second per watt).
Modern circuits have more power per transistor as the number
of transistors per chip grows. Therefore, power efficiency has
increased in importance. Recent processor designs such as the Intel
Core 2 put more emphasis on increasing power efficiency. Also, in
the world of embedded computing, power efficiency has long been
and remains an important goal next to throughput and latency.
Task 3. Do you remember the English equivalents of the
following words and word combinations?
Організовувати конвейерну обробку, антиблокувальні гальма,
передбачувані, показники, сфера використання, робота в режимі
інтерпретації, встановлювання контрольних точок, поділятися,
управляти, без перешкод, крім того, обмінюватись на,
нещодавній, вбудована обчислювана обробка, залишатися.
Task 4. Discuss the following ideas:
1. What is computer performance affected by?
2. How are computer systems classified according to their
application domain?
3. What is benchmarking?
4. Why is power consumption important in modern computers?
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