Chapter 2: The Role of Performance

1: Concepts Introduced in Chapter 2

2: Gauging Performance

3: Performance Terms

4: Performance Equations

5: N Times Faster

6: Measures of Clock Speed

7: Measures of Size of Data

8: CPU Time

9: Amdahl's Law

10: Other Popular Measures

11: Benchmarks

12: Figure 2.6: The SPEC95 CPU benchmarks.

13: Fallacies and Pitfalls