CPI Example
Suppose we have two implementations of the same instruction set architecture (ISA). For some program,Machine A has a clock cycle time of 10 ns. and a CPI of 2.0 Machine B has a clock cycle time of 20 ns. and a CPI of 1.2 What machine is faster for this program, and by how much?
If two machines have the same ISA which of our quantities (e.g., clock rate, CPI, execution time, # of instructions, MIPS) will always be identical?