Fallacies and Pitfalls
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Pitfall: Expecting the improvement of one aspect of a machine to increase
performance by an amount proportional to the size of the improvement.
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Fallacy: Hardware-independent metrics predict performance.
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Pitfall: Comparing computers using only one or two of three
performance metrics: clock rate, CPI, and instruction count.
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Pitfall: Using peak performance to compare machines.
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