Evaluating performance improvement options

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Question: Processor X has a clock speed of 2Ghz and takes one cycle for integer operations, two cycles for memory operations, and four cycles for floating point operations. Empirical data shows that programs run on Processor X are typically composed of 35% floating point operations, 30% memory operations, and 35% integer operations.

You are designing Processor Y, and improvement on Processor X which will run the same programs and you have 2 options to improve the performance:
-Increase the clock speed to 2.4Ghz, but memory operations take 3 cycles.
-Decrease the clock speed to 1.8 ghz, but floating point operations only take 3 cycles.

Calculate the speedup for options and decide the option Processor Y should take.

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