CPSC 330 - Spring 2007 Homework 6 Due by class time on Friday, April 27 1. Question 8.8 of your textbook, p. 507. 2. Question 8.15 of your textbook, p. 508. 3. Consider an enhancement to a computer system that provides an eight times speedup when in use. What is the overall speedup if the enhancement can only be used for one half of a program's normal execution time? Show the result as a fraction. 4. What fraction of normal execution time must the 8x enhancement be used to achieve an overall speedup of 4? Show the result as a fraction. 5. A program executes 10 billion instructions on a processor with an avg. CPI of 2.0 and a clock frequency of 2 GHz. What is the MIPS value? 6. Question 12.9 of your textbook, p. 658.