The following slides discuss the computer performance and its evaluations.

Slide 3.1: Defining performance
Slide 3.2: Defining performance (cont.)
Slide 3.3: CPU performance and its factors
Slide 3.4: CPU performance and its factors (cont.)
Slide 3.5: Instruction performance
Slide 3.6: The classic CPU performance equation
Slide 3.7: The classic CPU performance equation (cont.)
Slide 3.8: Understanding program performance
Slide 3.9: The power wall
Slide 3.10: The power wall (cont.)
Slide 3.11: The switch from uniprocessors to multiprocessors
Slide 3.12: SPEC CPU benchmark
Slide 3.13: SPEC CPU benchmark (cont.)
Slide 3.14: SPEC power benchmark




      Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly,    
      better than wise people for their wisdom.    
      ― Elizabeth Gaskell, Wives and Daughters