GATE - 2004 | OS | In an enhancement of a design of a CPU, the speed of a floating point
Posted on 22-02-2022
GATE - 2004 [Operating System]
Question:
In an enhancement of a design of a CPU, the speed of a floating point unit has been increased by 20% and the speed of a fixed point unit has been increased by 10%. What is the overall speedup achieved if the ratio of the number of floating point operations to the number of fixed point operations is 2:3 and the floating point operation used to take twice the time taken by the fixed point operation in the original design?
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A |
1.155 |
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B |
1.185 |
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C |
1.255 |
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D |
1.285 |
Solution:
Option (A) is Correct.
