1.3 Introduction
- Instruction Set Architecture (ISA): an assembly language programmer's view of the microprocessor
- Assembler translates symbolic assembly language code into binary machine language code.
1.6 Performance
- Execution time (response time) - Time to complete a program or task.
- Throughput (bandwidth) - Number of programs or tasks completed per time unit.
- Execution Time (t exec, ie elapsed time, wall time, real time, response time) - Elapsed sec from start to finish. Includes 1....