Given five memory partitions of 100 KB, 500 KB, 200 KB, 300 KB, and 600 KB (in order), how would each of the first-fit, best-fit, and worst-fit algorithms place processes of 212 KB, 417 KB, 112 KB,...
When the program is recompiled with optimisation (the –O3 compiler switch) the programmer discovers that the sumLoop () function runs faster and that the execution time of a sum = sum + increment;...
With reference to the following Telnet session transcript give an explanation of the HTTP protocol: $ telnet www.cis.strath.ac.uk 80 Trying 130.159.196.40... Connected to www.cis.strath.ac.uk. Escape...
1 (a) MIPS is a popular metric for rating the performance of a computer. In this context what does MIPS mean? (1 mark) (b) There are three types of MIPS ratings, namely: (i) Native MIPS (ii) Peak MIPS...
