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Performance Measurement and Quantitative Analysis
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Metrics (latency, throughput, CPI, IPC, MIPS pitfalls), Amdahl’s law, benchmarking, profiling intuition, roofline model basics, and how ISA/pipeline/cache choices show up in real measurements. Ties the course together.
Goal
Apply Amdahl’s law and CPI breakdowns to predict speedups; design simple experiments (counters, timers) to measure cache/pipeline effects; critique benchmark results and avoid common performance fallacies; use AMAT and pipeline CPI models to compare design alternatives.
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