When the transistor was invented, back in 1947, the switch it replaced (which was called the vacuum tube) was about as big as one of your thumbs. Now, a state-of-the-art microprocessor (single-chip computer) packs hundreds of millions (and up to 30 billion) transistors onto a chip of...
What is a microprocessor? a) Why is miss rate not a good metric for evaluating cache performance? What is the appropriate metric? Give its definition b) What is the reason for using a combination of first and second level cach Why is the ETL process important for data warehousing?